 | Frank James Mathew - 1922 - 460 pàgines
...family and the peace of his home. It is recorded that his family loved him, for, according to Dowdall, " his wife and daughters did earnestly desire to be laid in the same grave with him," and we have no reason to doubt that he returned their affection. New Place, his last home at Stratford,... | |
 | Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn, George Bagshawe Harrison - 1923 - 140 pàgines
...with the parish clerk : extinguish'd. Not one for feare of the curse abovesaid [ie on the tombstone] dare touch his gravestone, tho his wife and daughters did earnestly desire to be layd in the same grave with him.' The Vestry-book at Stratford shows that the clerk and sexton in 1693... | |
 | Joseph Quincy Adams - 1923 - 720 pàgines
...sextons, "for fear of the curse abovesaid, dare touch his gravestone," and this even though, as he adds, "his wife and daughters did earnestly desire to be laid in the same tomb with him." l Shakespeare's daughter, Susanna, who was buried near him, suffered the very fate... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 pàgines
...this family the women outlasted their menfolk. Dowdall in 1693 reports a tradition that Shakespeare's 'wife and daughters did earnestly desire to be laid in the same grave with him', but 'for fear of the curse' nobody dared 'touch his gravestone'. The Halls' only child Elizabeth in... | |
 | E. A. J. Honigmann - 1998 - 202 pàgines
...reason to disbelieve the clerk about the epitaph, any more than to dispute his story that Shakespeare's 'wife and daughters did earnestly desire to be laid in the same grave with him' - unless it be that, again, we think the verses not good enough. What, then, would be 'good enough'?... | |
 | Ian Wilson - 1999 - 564 pàgines
...and their daughters' benefit, and late-seventeenth-century tradition has it that Anne (along with her daughters) 'did earnestly desire to be laid in the same grave with him'.16 Certainly upon her death in 1623 she was laid to rest as near to him as the curse would allow,... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 pàgines
...Later in the century, a traveler visiting Stratford heard from an ancient clerk that Shakespeare's "wife and daughters did earnestly desire to be laid in the same grave with him." Mindful of the curse, not one of the sextons dared touch his gravestone, however, and Shakespeare is... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1898 - 576 pàgines
...best of his family. . Not one, for fear of the curse abovesaid, dare touch his grave stone, though his wife and daughters did earnestly desire to be laid in the same grave with him." Mrs. Shakespeare died in August, lt>23; Mrs. Hall on the llth of July, 1649. Here we see the origin... | |
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Not one for fear of the curse above-said dare touch his grave-stone, though his wife and daughters did earnestly desire to be laid in the same grave with him. 
