 | William John Pinks - 1860 - 156 pàgines
...them ! Mine aches to think on't." Samlet, Act V., scene 1. " If they are indeed his own, they show that solicitude about the quiet of the grave which...natural to fine sensibilities and thoughtful minds." Mr. Charles Knight is inclined to think that the terrible anathema — " Curst be he that moves my... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1913 - 872 pàgines
...what were those ? ' said the young man. ' He said this : I wonder the jingle lingers in my head : ' " 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." Yes, so I think... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 452 pàgines
...direction on the stone that marks his grave. If I am wrong, I am content to go wrong with Shakspeare : 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 most eloquent exposition... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 406 pàgines
...direction on the stone that marks his grave. If I am wrong, I am content to go wrong with Shakspeare : 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 most eloquent... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1862 - 310 pàgines
...enforced as they seemed by his spirit whose bones they were intended to protect. They run thus : — " 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." On the side of the... | |
 | 1863 - 348 pàgines
...the north chancel of Stratford church. A flag-stone covers his grave, and on it is inscribed — " 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." It is unnecessary... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1864 - 432 pàgines
...Knight, in one of his admirable papers, attributes Shakspeare's rhyming epitaph upon his tombstone to the 'solicitude about the quiet of the grave which seems...natural to fine sensibilities and thoughtful minds ; ' and to a very great extent such may have been the case, as the deprecation of the removal of human... | |
 | William Harvey - 1864 - 412 pàgines
...excellence. The epitaph on Shakspeare's tomb has hitherto prevented the least disrespect to his ashes:— " Good friend, for Jesus' sake, forbear To dig the dust enclosed here; Blest he the man who spares these stones, And cursed he he who moves my hones." Cowper felt the indignity... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 436 pàgines
...doggrel; but the author of the Sketch Book says they "have in them something extremely awful, and show that solicitude about the quiet of the grave which...natural to fine sensibilities and thoughtful minds." They had the merit, at any rate, of achieving their purpose, since they have secured for his native... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 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...natural to fine sensibilities and thoughtful minds. ',-;,«*| frinvL lor JOMIs' rake fiwhmre To diit tin' 'iU''t cnclo*i) hcrv. Ble-,-^Nl be ho th.it span«s... | |
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Good friend, for Jesus' sake, forbear To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. 
