 | Joseph Cradock - France - 1828 - 440 pages
...clouds contend with growing light ; Would I were dead ! if Heaven's good will were so. Methinks, O God, it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain, So that his hours, days, weeks, and months, and years Past over, to the end they were created, Might... | |
 | 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 the minutes... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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 hill, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run:... | |
 | 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 how they run:... | |
 | 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. NEW... | |
 | 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 the minutes... | |
 | 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 wisest... | |
 | 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 the minutes,... | |
 | 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 to sec the minutes... | |
 | 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 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... 
