 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
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...boards, TWELVE DRAMATIC SKETCHES, FOUNDED ON THE PASTORAL POETRY OF SCOTLAND. BrW. M. HETHERINGTON, AM " Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain !** SHAKSPKARK. Edinburgh: CONSTABLE & Co. 19, Waterloo Place j and HUMT, CHANGS, & Co. London. " An... | |
 | 1829 - 504 pages
...DRAMATIC SKETCHES, FOUNDED OH THE PASTORAL POETRY OF SCOTLAND. BY VV. M. HETHERINGTON, AM " Methinlu it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain !" SHAKSPKARK. Edinburgh: CONSTABLE & Co., 19, Waterloo Place; a HI-KST, CHANCE, and Co. London. NEW... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...m< thinks, it were a happy life, ' To be no belter than a homely swain ; * To sit upon a hill, as I do now, * To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, * Thereby to sec the minutes how they run: * How many moke the hour full complete, * How many hours brin;,' about... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...thence. Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? 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... | |
 | Marcus Noll - Dreams in literature - 1994 - 184 pages
...deutlicher Neid spürbar sowie ein klar ausgedrückter Wunsch, lieber Hirte als König sein zu wollen: O God! Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. [...] Ah, what a life were this! How sweet! How lovely ! (3 Henry VI, E, 5, 2l -22 und 41 ) Während... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...victors, breast to breast, Yet neither conqueror nor conquered. So is the equal poise of this fell war. 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... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...which cannot be trusted to the tell-tale day. (V, 74) [116] [On 3 Henry VI, 2.5.21 ff: King Henry. O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain] This speech is mournful and soft, exquisitely suited to the character of the king, and makes a pleasing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...thence. Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? О hee? EGEUS. Full of vexation come I, I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, —... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...get on better without him, he meditates on how much happier he would be as a peasant than as a king. 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... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...shepherd: Would I were dead, if God's good will were so! For what is in this world but grief and woe? 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 —... | |
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