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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. "
Shakspeare and His Times - Page 109
by Guizot (M., François) - 1852 - 360 pages
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...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 raised to his memory in Westminster- Abbey.* It is to be lamented,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...the menace of a curse : Good Friend ! for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust inclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones; And cursed be he that moves my bones. The last of these inscriptions may have been written by Shakspeare himself under the apprehension of...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Life of Shakespeare. Seven ages ...

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 pages
...the menace of a curse : Godd Friend ! for Jesus' sake, forbear To dig the dust inclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones ; And cursed be he that moves mv bones. The last of these inscriptions may have been written by Shakspeare himself under the apprehension...
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The County [afterw.] Country miscellany, ed. by H. Burgess

Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...thoughtful minds : ' Good friend, for Jesus sake forbeare To dig the dust inclosed here: Blessed be he that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.' Just over the grave, in a niche of the wall, is a bust of Shakspeare, put up after his death, and considered...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Life. New facts regarding the life ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 608 pages
...menace of a curse : — Good friend ! for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust inclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones ; And cursed be he that moves my bones. The last of these inscriptions may have been written by Shakspeare himself, under the apprehension...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...on Shakspcafe's Tomb. " Good friend, for Jesus' sake, forbear To dig the dust enclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones ; And cursed be he that moves my bones." What honour could his name have derived from being mingled', in dusty companionship', with the epitaphs',...
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Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and ..., Volume 15

Anna Maria Hall - 426 pages
...grave, composed by himself, is universally known, with .its strong conelnding lines, — • "Blesa'd be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones." Less generally known is the inseription on the tomb of his danghter Susanna, which highly praises her...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 656 pages
...menace of a curse : — Good friend ! for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust inclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones ; And cursed be he that moves my bones. The last of these inscriptions may have been written by Shakspeare himself, under the apprehension...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Illustrated ; Embracing ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 614 pages
...the menace of a curse :— Good friend ! for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust inclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones ; And cursed be he that moves my bones. The last of these inscriptions may have been written by Shakspeare himself, under the apprehension...
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Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Volume 2

Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 494 pages
...master of our tongue : — Good friend, for Jesus' sake, forbear To digg the dust enclosed here ! Blest be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones ! The Boston Prison Discipline Society is not VVilliam Shakspeare ; nor is it yet dead. But the maledictions...
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