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... The Dramatic Works - Page 65by William Shakespeare - 1831Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 338 pages
...Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so : For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? Alas ! methinks, it were a happy life, To be no better than...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 about the... | |
| William Hazlitt - Authors and publishers - 1821 - 420 pages
...The division of the map of life into its component parts is beautifully made by King Henry VI. " Oh God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better...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 about the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 614 pages
...'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...carve out dials quaintly, point by point, * Thereby to see the minutes how they run : * How many make the hour full complete 9, * How many hours bring about... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 542 pages
...'Would t 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...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 about the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 384 pages
...: Would I were dead ! if God's good will were BO : For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? O God ! methinks, it were a happy life," To be no better...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 about the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 324 pages
...'Would I were dead ! if God's good will were «o : 1 For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? * O God ! methinks, it were a happy life, ' To be no better...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 about... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...blowing of his nails, Can neither call it perfect day, nor night. THE BLESSINGS OF A SHEPHERD'S LIFE. O God! methinks, it were a happy life, To be no better...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 about the... | |
| Books - 1826 - 382 pages
...while sitting on the molehill, apart from the battle-field of Towton ; .and is as follows : — " O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better...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 about the... | |
| 1826 - 382 pages
...while sitting on the molehill, apart from the battle-field of Towton ; and is as follows : — " O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better...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 about the... | |
| Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 312 pages
...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...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 about the... | |
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