 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 494 pages
...Margaret my queen , and Clifford too , Have chid me from the battle , swearing both , They prosper best of all when I am thence. Would I were dead ! if God's...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - 1843 - 264 pages
...a gasping new-deliver'd mother, Have woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow join'd. RICHARD II. ii. 2. WORLD. Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so : For what is in this world but grief and woe ? 3 HENRY VI. ii. 5. WORLD'S DISSOLUTION. The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 370 pages
...out a similar comparison in Virgil, JKn- lib. x. ver. 354, which originates with Homer, Iliad liv. * 'Would, I were 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 life2, 1 To be no better than a homely swain; * To sit upon as... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 pages
...Margaret my queen, and Clifford too, Have chid me from the battle; swearing both They prosper best of all when I am thence. Would I were dead! if God's...hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours... | |
 | Laura Christian Ford - 1994 - 308 pages
...Henry is lamenting the burdens of kingship and longing for a simpler existence. He says in a soliloquy, "Would I were dead! if God's good will were so: /For what is in this world but grief and woe?" (2.5.19-20). While Henry would prefer death, since that is apparendy not God's will, he goes on to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...victors, breast to breast, Yet neither conqueror nor conquered. So is the equal poise of this fell war. O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better...hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run How many makes the hour full complete, How many hours... | |
 | Gilian West - 2015 - 105 pages
...Clifford too, Have chid me from the battle, swearing both They prosper best of all when I am th6nce. W6uld I were dead, if God's good will were so! For what is in this world but grief and woe? [Enter a Son, bearing the body of his Father] 1ll blows the wind that profits nobody. This man whom... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...Margaret my queen, and Clifford too, Have chid me from the battle; swearing both They prosper best LYSANDER, and DEMETRIUS. EGEUS. Happy be Theseus,...duke! THESEUS. Thanks, good Egeus: what's the news wi О God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...get on better without him, he meditates on how much happier he would be as a peasant than as a king. O God! Methinks it were a happy life To be no better...hill, as I do now; To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many makes the hour full complete, How many... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...observes the fluctuating battle and imagines the content he would have if he were a simple shepherd: Would I were dead, if God's good will were so! For...hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run — How many makes the hour full complete, 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, Thereby to see the minutes how they run... 
