 | John Thurston - 1825 - 308 pages
...walks, insulting o'er his prey; And so he comes to rend his limbs asunder. Act I. Scene III. K. Jim. O 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... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 pages
...in the beginning of the thirty-third chapter of this instructive work. CHAP. XXXV. TABLE TALK. " Oh God ! methinks it were a happy life " To be no better than a homely swain." SHAK&PEARI. " IT is all owing to our departing from nature," said the Doctor, " or being what you are... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1826 - 384 pages
...Henry while sitting on the molehill, apart from the battle-field of Towton ; and is as follows : — " O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as 1 do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run : How... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - 1828 - 430 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...blowing of his nails, Can neither call it perfect day, or night. THE BLESSINGS OF A SHEPHERD'S LIFt. O God ! methinks, it were a happy life, To be no better...quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes now they run : How many make the hour full complete, How many ho'urs bring about the day, How many... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 392 pages
...thence. Would, I were 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...hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point hy point, Therehy to see the minutes how they run ; How many make the hour fall complete, How many... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...in this world, but цпсГ and wo ? * О God ! m< thinks, it were a happy life, ' To be no belter than a homely swain ; * To sit upon a hill, as I do...carve out dials quaintly, point by point, * Thereby to sec the minutes how they run: * How many moke the hour full complete, * How many hours brin;,' about... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 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 hill, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...stay; like 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: How many... | |
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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... 
