| Samuel Astley Dunham - 1837 - 418 pàgines
...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... | |
| William Martin - 1838 - 368 pàgines
...by himself, and which have in them something extremely awful. If they are indeed his own, they show that solicitude about the quiet of the grave, which...sensibilities and thoughtful minds : — Good friend, for lesvs' sake forbeare To dig the dvst encloased heare. Blest be ye. man yt. spare thes stones, And cvrst... | |
| John Dowdall - 1838 - 62 pàgines
...underneath which his body is buried with this epitaph made by himself a little before his death :— Good friend, for Jesus sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. The clerk that showed... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pàgines
...great church at Stratford, where a monument is placed in the wall. On his grave-stone underneath is, Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. He had three daughters,... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1842 - 398 pàgines
...coat of white paint. Not far from it is the spot where his ashes rest, with the quaint adjuration ; u Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here ; Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones." Near him his wife... | |
| Washington Irving - 1843 - 400 pàgines
...by himself, and which have in them something extremely awful. If they are indeed his own, they show that solicitude about the quiet of the grave, which...thoughtful minds: — Good friend, for Jesus' sake , forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here: Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pàgines
...by himself, and which have in them something extremely awful. If they are indeed his own, they show that solicitude about the quiet of the grave, which...sensibilities and thoughtful minds: — " Good friend, for lesvs* sake forbeare To dig the dvst encloased heare. Blest be ye. man yt. spare thes stones, And curst... | |
| 1876 - 818 pàgines
...following well-known Hues, supposed to have been composed by himself, are engraved upon his tombstone : — "Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man who spares these stones, And curst be he that mores my bones." Ben Jonson, the friend... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - 1847 - 400 pàgines
...probably secure their being left in sacred repose till the last awful hour of this perishable globe. Good friend ! for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curs'd be he that moves my bones. " The grave ! the... | |
| Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 pàgines
...by himself, and which have in them something extremely awful. If they are indeed his own, they show that solicitude about the quiet of the grave, which...and thoughtful minds. Good friend, for Jesus' sake, forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that... | |
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