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" Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones And cursed be he that moves my bones. "
Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands - Page 178
by Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1842 - 368 pages
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Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting ...

Women - 1822 - 634 pages
...inscribed on it, said to have been written by himself, and which have in them something extremely awful. Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here. , Blessed be he who spares these stnnes, And curst be he that moves my bones. Just over the grave,...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...populus moeret, Olympus habet. And, on the grave-stone, in the pavement beneath, are these lines : Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here. Blest be tjic man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bone*. In 1740, a noWe monument was...
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The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson and Stevens [sic ...

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...church at Stratford, where a monument ii placed in the wall. On his grave-stone underneath ie, , " Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here. '/V¡ Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones." He had three...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 508 pages
...the great church at Stratford, where a monument is placed in the wall. On his grave-stone underneath u — * " Good friend for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here, Blwl be the man that spares them stoncp, And curst be he that moves my bone*." He had three daughters,...
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The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster ..., Volume 2

George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 524 pages
...where a good bust was placed to his memory. On the grave-stone beneath appear these doggerel lines:— Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here: Blessed be the man who spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones. Besides his plays,...
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The Monuments and Genii of St.Paul's and Westminster Abbey: Comprising Naval ...

George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...a good bust was placed to his memory. On the grave-stone beneath appear these doggerel lines : — Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here: Blessed be the man who spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones. Besides his plays,...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 12

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 622 pages
...following lines, attributed to himself: Good friend, for Jesus' sake, forbear To diffg Ihe dust encloased here ; Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be lie that moves my bones. STRATH, in Scotland, is generally understood to mean a valley broader than...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...undisturbed in its quiet and hajlowed vaults'. * Taunts, sarcasms. t Aspect. Epitaph on Skakspeare's Tomb. Good friend, for Jesus' sake, forbear To dig the dust...here. Blest be the man that spares these stones; And cursed be be tbat moves my bones." What honour could his name have derived from being mingled', in...
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The Odd Fellows' Magazine, Volume 4

Fraternal organizations - 1837 - 474 pages
...his grave, in Stratford church, are the following lines, said to have been written by himself: — Good friend, for Jesus' sake, forbear To dig the dust enclosed here ; Bleste be ye. man yt. spares these stones, And curst be he yt. moves my bones. The brief outline...
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Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great ..., Volume 2

Samuel Astley Dunham - Authors, English - 1837 - 418 pages
...the chancel. A plain grave-stone covers his remains, with the following strange inscription : — " Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here ! Bless'd be the man that spares these stones ! And curst be he that moves these bones 1 " A monument...
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