 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...DCXIX. — — 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...man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times: So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...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...about the day, How many days will finish up the year, 0 How many years a mortal man may live. When this is kjiown, then to divide the times: So many hours... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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...man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times : So many hours must I tend my flock ; So many hours must I take my rest ; So many hours must... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 540 pages
...so : ' For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? * O God ! methinks, it were a happy life,'I ' To be no better than a homely swain ; * To sit upon...quaintly, point by point, * Thereby to see the minutes how theyrun : * How many make the hour full complete, * How many hours bring about the day, * How many... | |
 | English drama - 1831 - 232 pages
...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...up the year, How many years a mortal man may live. Act 2. Sc. 5. KING RICHARD THE THIRD : AN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY, BY WILLIAM SHAKSPEARB. IN the commencement... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 pages
...it were a happy life, ' To be no better than a homely swain ; * To sit upon a hill, as I do nciwj * To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, * Thereby...may live. * When this is known, then to divide the times : * So many hours must I tend my flock; * So many hours must I take my rest; * So many hours... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...* 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 make the hour...may live. * When this is known, then to divide the times : * So many hours must I tend my flock ; * So many hours must I take my rest ; * So many hours... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 606 pages
...hill, as I do now, * To carve out dial« quaintly, point by point, * Thereby to see the minutes now n With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this times : * So many hours must I tend my flock ; * So many hours must I take my rest ; * So many hours... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 496 pages
...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...may live. " When this is known, then to divide the times : " So many hours must I tend my flock ; " So many hours must I take my rest : " So many hours... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 556 pages
...better than a homely swain ; *To sit uj)on a hill, as I do now, * To carve out dials quaintly, jx>int by point, * Thereby to see the minutes how they run...may live. * When this is known, then to divide the times : * So many hours must I tend my flock ; * So many hours must I take my rest ; * So many hours... | |
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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... 
