 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...a stale at chess, where it is no mate, but yet the game cannot stir.—Lord Bacon. DCXIX. Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a bill, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Robert Southey - Christian life - 1829 - 488 pages
...ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, to " O God! nu;tliinks 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... | |
 | John Thurston - 1830 - 176 pages
...o'er his prey; And so he comes to rend his limbs asunder. Act I. Scene III. A". Hen. О 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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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... | |
 | English drama - 1831 - 232 pages
...dead ! If God's good will were so : For what is in this world, but grief and woe I 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...dead ! if God's good will were so : ' For what is in this world, but grief and wo ? 0 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 - 1833 - 496 pages
...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 ; war, " To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, " Thereby... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1836 - 746 pages
...beginning of the thirty-third chapter of this instructive work. CHAPTER XXXV. TABLE TALK. Ob God ! metbinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. SHAKSPEARE. " IT is all owing to our departing from nature," said the Doctor, " or being what... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 646 pages
...! if God's good will were so : 1 For what is in this world, but grit-fond woe? *O G'xl 1 mrthinks, well : for worthy Wolsey Who cannot err, he did il. No nwain ; * To sit upon a hill, as I do now, ' To carve out dials quaintly, uoiut by point, * Thereby... | |
| |
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... 
