 God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring...  Retrospective Review - Page 316edited by - 1826Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...dead ! if God's good will were so . For what is in this world, but grief and wo? * 0 God ! melhinks, it were a happy life. To be no better than a homely swain ; ' To sit upon a lull, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...well be supposed to utter those congenial lines which the poet has given him: — О God ! mi-thinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely awain ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | John Thurston - 1825 - 308 pages
...walks, insulting o'er his prey; And so he comes to rend his limbs asunder. Act I. Scene III. K. Jim. O God ! methinks, it. were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain. Act II. Scene V. K. Hen. Let me embrace these sour adversities ; For wiser men say, it is the wisest... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 pages
...in the beginning of the thirty-third chapter of this instructive work. CHAP. XXXV. TABLE TALK. " Oh God ! methinks it were a happy life " To be no better than a homely swain." SHAK&PEARI. " IT is all owing to our departing from nature," said the Doctor, " or being what you are... | |
 | Books - 1826 - 382 pages
...the rhyme and the structure of the verse permit, to reduce the spelling as near as possible to ihe modern standard, and endeavour to accommodate it to...better than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run : How... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 318 pages
...unambitious sentiments might well be supposed to utter those congenial lines which the Poet has given him : " O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes, how they run : How... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 318 pages
...POETRY AND POETS. might well be supposed to utter those congenial lines which the Poet has given him : " O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes, how they run : How... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 602 pages
...so : ' For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? * O God ! methinks, it were a happy life,2 ' To be no better than a homely swain ; * To sit upon a hill, as I do now, * To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, * Thereby to see the minutes how they run... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 410 pages
...so ; ' For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? * O God ! methinks, it were a happy life2, ' To be no better than a homely swain ; * To sit upon a hill, as I do now, * To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, * Thereby to see the minutes how they run... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 410 pages
...so i ' For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? * O God ! methinks, it were a happy life2, ' To be no better than a homely swain; * To sit upon a hill, as I do now, * To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, * Thereby to see the minutes how they run... | |
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