 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1836 - 746 sivua
...beginning of the thirty-third chapter of this instructive work. CHAPTER XXXV. TABLE TALK. Ob God ! metbinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. SHAKSPEARE. " IT is all owing to our departing from nature," said the Doctor, " or being what you are... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 646 sivua
...! if God's good will were so : 1 For what is in this world, but grit-fond woe? *O G'xl 1 mrthinks, well : for worthy Wolsey Who cannot err, he did il. No nwain ; * To sit upon a hill, as I do now, ' To carve out dials quaintly, uoiut by point, * Thereby... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 sivua
...companions the beauty of such a scene, and, as they journey home, exclaim with a sigh, " O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain !" Many are the charms which strike the sportman's eye in his day's journey. With what carelessness... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1839 - 490 sivua
...dead, if God's good will were so! For what is in this world but woe and grief ? O heaven ! 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... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1840 - 354 sivua
...insertion of a part of the soliloquy which Henry is made to utter in the midst of the battle — " Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain." The speech is characteristic, and may be read as an illustrative specimen of Shakspeare's mode of amplifying... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 428 sivua
...dead, if God's good will were so i ' 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... | |
 | Alfred Butler - 1841 - 310 sivua
...clergyman by the external appearance of the village in which he resides. CHAPTER II. O God, methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain. HENRY vi. Act 2, Sc. 5. THE village of Westbourne, in the county of Leicester, is like ninety-nine... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 634 sivua
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 644 sivua
...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 1 do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 462 sivua
...dead, if God's good will were so I ' 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 carve out dials quaintly, point by point, " Thereby to see the minutes how they run : " How many make... | |
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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... 
