 | J. B. van Amerongen - Performing arts in literature - 1926 - 338 pages
...attend my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hatband or any such revolting absurdity. ... I conjure my friends on no account to make me the...of any monument, memorial or testimonial whatever. . . ." The stories with which he would entertain his guests at dinner generally took a theatrical turn... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1926 - 1000 pages
...attend my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hat-band, or other such revolting absurdity. I DIRECT that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb, without the addition of " Mr." or " Esquire." I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject... | |
 | 1870 - 420 pages
...Pickwick Papers, and the following extract from his will, which we copy from the Spruigfield Republican. "I direct that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb. I enjoin my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Literary Collections - 2002 - 850 pages
...attend my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hat-band, or other such revolting absurdity. I DIRECT that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb, without the addition of "Mr." or "Esquire." I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject... | |
 | John Bowen - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 244 pages
...the things his lawyers had told him were 'necessary to the plain objects of this my Will', he wrote: 'I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever.'72 Here he is using the word 'conjure' in its more archaic sense, meaning to adjure or implore.... | |
 | John Camden-Hotten - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 116 pages
..." ' / direct that my name be inscribed in plain English lettei s on my tomb. I conjure my fi lends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claim to the remembrance of my country on my I published works, and to the remembrance of my ft iends... | |
 | Devorah Knaff - Literary Collections - 2004 - 340 pages
...native to California. 3 Dickens's grave in Westminster Abbey is unadorned, following his own request that "my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works." SHAKES. by Taliesm Evans... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1871 - 972 pages
...attend my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hat-band, or other such revolting absurdity. "I direct that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb, without the addition of 'Mr.' or 'Esquire.' I conjure my friends, on no account to make me the subject... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - Biography & Autobiography - 1870 - 510 pages
...attend my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hat-band, or other such revolting absurdity. I direct that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb without the addition of 'Mr.' or * Esquire.' I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject... | |
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I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works, and to the remembrance of my friends upon their experience of me in... 
