 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...  The Works of William Shakspeare - Page 222by William Shakespeare - 1852Full view - About this book
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...Forc'd by the tide to combat with the wind ; Now sways it that way, like the self-same sea, Forc'd to retire, by fury of the wind : Sometime, the flood...up the year, How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times : So many hours must I tend my flock ; So many hours must... | |
 | 1831 - 232 pages
...thence. 'Would I were dead ! If God's good will were so : For what is in this world, but grief and woe I O God! methinks, it were a happy life, To be no better...up the year, How many years a mortal man may live. Act 2. Sc. 5. KING RICHARD THE THIRD : AN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY, BY WILLIAM SHAKSPEARB. IN the commencement... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 pages
...it were a happy life, ' To be no better than a homely swain ; * To sit upon a hill, as I do nciwj * To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, * Thereby...the year, * How many years a mortal man may live. * When this is known, then to divide the times : * So many hours must I tend my flock; * So many hours... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...* To sit upon a hill, as I do now, * To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, * Thereby to sec the minutes how they run: * How many make the hour...the year, * How many years a mortal man may live. * When this is known, then to divide the times : * So many hours must I tend my flock ; * So many hours... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 496 pages
...were a happy life, " To be no better than a homely swain ; " To sit upon a hill, as I do now ; war, " To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, " Thereby...the year, " How many years a mortal man may live. " When this is known, then to divide the times : " So many hours must I tend my flock ; " So many hours... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 556 pages
...better than a homely swain ; *To sit uj)on a hill, as I do now, * To carve out dials quaintly, jx>int by point, * Thereby to see the minutes how they run...the year, * How many years a mortal man may live. * When this is known, then to divide the times : * So many hours must I tend my flock ; * So many hours... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1838 - 360 pages
...thence. 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 life To be no better...up the year, How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times : So many hours must I tend my flock, So many hours must... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 428 pages
...both, ' They prosper best of all when I am thence. ' Would I were dead, if God's good will were so i ' For what is in this world but grief and woe ? " O...the year, " How many years a mortal man may live. " When this is known, then to divide the times : " So many hours must I tend my flock ; " So many hours... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 628 pages
...be victors, breast to breast, Yet neither conqueror, nor conquered : So is the equal poise of this fell war. Here, on this molehill, will I sit me down....up the year, How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times : So many hours must I tend my flock ; So many hours must... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 644 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,...up the year, How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times : So many hours must I tend my flock ; So many hours must... | |
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