 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 494 pages
...dead ! if God's good will were so ; For what is in this world but grief and woe? 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 see the minutes... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1845 - 432 pages
...of the map of life into its component parts is beautifully made by King Henry VI. " 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... | |
 | Gift books - 1845 - 386 pages
...JUDGE, and a SIGNER of the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ! THE SHEPHERD. SHAKSFE ARE . 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 Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...discordant wavering multitude — Can play upon it. —Henry IV. Part II. SHEPHERD'S LIFE. 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 the minutes... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...dead ! if God's good will were so ; For what is in this world but grief and woe? O God ! methinks, his end ? W in. He was a king, bless'd of the King of kings. U sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...give to every one, Thawing cold fear. Haw» Г [The Bletnngi of a Shepherd*! Life.] 0 God ! methinks or though I do contemn report myself As a mere sound, I still sit Upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...were dead! if God's good will were so: For what is this 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; To carve out dials quaintly, point by point; Thereby to see the minutes... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1901 - 578 pages
...new fangled ill, Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse. Sonnet XCI. О 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1926 - 538 pages
...Henry VI. with a shepherd, Henry V. with " private men " or a slave. The former «xclaims, Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. The latter says, What infinite heart's-ease must kings neglect That private men enjoy ! The former,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - College verse - 1850 - 132 pages
...dead ! if God's good will were so : For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? 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 see the minutes... | |
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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... 
