 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...  King Henry VI - Pàgina 326per William Shakespeare - 1841Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Augusta Theodosia Drane - 1860 - 384 pàgines
.... Would I were dead, if God's good will were so: For what is in the world but grief and woe? Ah me! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain, To sit upon a hill as I do now And carve out dials quaintly. . . . So many minutes, days, weeks, months, and years, Passed over to... | |
 | Henry Curling - 1861 - 268 pàgines
...happy " in the hawthorn shade;" and then he repeated the words of Richard the Second. " 0 Heaven 1 methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. To sit upon a hill as I do now, And carve out dials quaintly point by point." XXIV. THE FUGITIVES SUCCEED IN GETTING SHELTER. THE spot... | |
 | Charles Wordsworth - 1864 - 392 pàgines
...sit me down. To whom God will, there be the victory. Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so ; For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? O God...do now, To carve out dials quaintly point by point. So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring... | |
 | Charles Wordsworth - 1864 - 332 pàgines
...sit me down. To whom God will, there be the victory. Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so ; For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? O God...do now, To carve out dials quaintly point by point. So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 690 pàgines
...thence. Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so ; For what is in this world but grief and woe ? 20 O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, 25 How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; SCENE v.] Capell. SCENE... | |
 | 1865 - 708 pàgines
...swearing both They prosper best of all when I am thence. 'Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so : For what is in this world but grief and woe ? O God...now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, LL Thereby to see the minutes how they run : How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring... | |
 | Edward J. Wood - 1866 - 464 pàgines
...centre ; So many a thousand actions, once afoot, End in one purpose." Henry F, ai, s. 2. " King Henry O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run." Henry VI. Part III., a. ii., s. 5. CHAPTER III. Curious Griffin Clock — Water-Clock — Frankfort... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 704 pàgines
...will were so : For what is in this world but grief and woe ? 0 God ! methiuks it were a happy Kfe, To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon...now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, LL Thereby to see the minutes how they run : How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring... | |
 | 1867 - 632 pàgines
...leisure, one might yield to the influence of the place, and with Shakespeare's Henry VI. exclaim, — " Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run. The shepherd's homely curds — His thin cold drink out of his leathern bottle— His wonted sleep... | |
 | Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 pàgines
...golden doors To hail Thy Sabbath, Lord ! SHEPHERD. Uhland. THE QUIET HAPPINESS OP HIS LIFE. OGOD ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill ; To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run : How many make... | |
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