 | Theater - 1824 - 462 pages
...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 " &e. It is more than probable, that the poet had not seen his royal brother's verses, yet how... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 614 pages
...! 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Authors and publishers - 1821 - 420 pages
...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 than a homely swain, To sit upon a hill as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | English literature - 1839 - 608 pages
...of a part of the soliloquy which Henry is made to utter in the midst of the battle — ." Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain." The speech is characteristic, and may be read as an illustrative specimen of Shakspeare's mode... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1823 - 268 pages
...economy 'iftime, s. beautifully pourtrayed by the great bard, wr have jus> quoted. " 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, Tu carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 384 pages
...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 than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill-, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...sentiments might 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 324 pages
...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 than a homely swain ; * To sit upon a hill, as I do now, * To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, * Thereby... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...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 than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
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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... 
