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 than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,... Henry V - Sivu 346tekijä(t) William Shakespeare - 1811Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| William Shakespeare - 2000 - 180 sivua
...leads Henry to envision himself as a "homely swain," happily filling up his days with pastoral duties: So many hours must I tend my flock, So many hours...with young, So many weeks ere the poor fools will can, So many years ere I shall shear the fleece. So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2007 - 1288 sivua
...Thereby to see the minutes how they run, — How many makes the hour full complete; How many hours brings can; So many months ere I shall shear the fleece: So minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Past... | |
| Russell A. Fraser - 1988
...pretending to real life, makes early Shakespeare nervous, so he brings it to heel with rhetorical guidons: So many hours must I tend my flock, So many hours...I contemplate, So many hours must I sport myself. Stylized, not inept, this is art imitating nature, where nature is the "brief abstract and record of... | |
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