 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 318 pages
...POETRY AND POETS. might well be supposed to utter those congenial lines which the Poet has given him : " O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better...many hours must I take my rest ; So many hours must I contemplate ; So many hours must I sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young ; So many... | |
 | 1826 - 382 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...many hours must I take my rest ; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young ; So many... | |
 | 1826 - 382 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...many hours must I take my rest ; So many hours must I contemplate ; So many hours must I sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young ; So many... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 602 pages
...so : ' For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? * O God ! methinks, it were a happy life,2 ' To be no better than a homely swain ; * To sit upon...hours must I take my rest ; * So many hours must I contemplate ; * So many hours must I sport myself ; * So many days my ewes have been with young ; *... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 318 pages
...unambitious sentiments might well be supposed to utter those congenial lines which the Poet has given him : " O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better...When this is known, then to divide the times : So mauy hours must I tend my flock ; So many hours must I take my rest ; So many hours must I contemplate... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1826 - 384 pages
...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,...many hours must I take my rest ; So many hours must I contemplate ; So many hours must I sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young ; So many... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 312 pages
...many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish tip the year, How many years a mortal man may live. When...many hours must I take my rest ; So many hours must I contemplate ; So many hours must I sport myself ; So many days my ewes have been with young ; So many... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...blowing of his nails, Can neither call it perfect day, or night. THE BLESSINGS OP A SHEPHERD'S LIFE. 0 God! methinks, it were a happy life, To be no better...divide the times: So many hours must I tend my flock; * Demeaned himself. t Neat cattle, cows, oxen, &c. t Aurora takes for a time her farewell of the sun,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes now they run : How many make the hour full complete, How...divide the times: So many hours must I tend my flock; * Demeaned himself, t Neat cattle, cows, oxen, &c. t Aurora takes for a time her farewell of the sun,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 392 pages
...dials quaintly, point hy point, Therehy to see the minutes how they run ; How many make the hour fall complete, How many hours bring about the day, How...When this is known, then to divide the times: So many honrs must I lend my flock ; So many hours must I take my rest ; So many hours must I contemplate;... | |
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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: How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring... 
