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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, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring... "
The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes - Page 129
by William Shakespeare - 1767
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Sir Thomas More, Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of ..., Volume 2

Robert Southey - 1829 - 478 pages
...like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, to " 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...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...a stale at chess, where it is no mate, but yet the game cannot stir. — Lord Bacon. DCXIX. — — Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...stay; like a stale at chess, where it is no mate, but yet the game cannot stir.—Lord Bacon. DCXIX. Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a bill, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes...
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The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism ..., Volume 2

1829 - 642 pages
...boards, TWELVE DRAMATIC SKETCHES, FOUNDED ON THE PASTORAL POETRY OF SCOTLAND. BrW. M. HETHERINGTON, AM " Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain !** SHAKSPKARK. Edinburgh: CONSTABLE & Co. 19, Waterloo Place j and HUMT, CHANGS, & Co. London....
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Sir Thomas More, Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of ..., Volume 2

Robert Southey - 1829 - 488 pages
...ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, to " O God! nu;tliinks 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...
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The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism ..., Volume 1

1829 - 504 pages
...DRAMATIC SKETCHES, FOUNDED OH THE PASTORAL POETRY OF SCOTLAND. BY VV. M. HETHERINGTON, AM " Methinlu it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain !" SHAKSPKARK. Edinburgh: CONSTABLE & Co., 19, Waterloo Place; a HI-KST, CHANCE, and Co. London....
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 518 pages
...both, They prosper best of all when I am thence. 'Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so : For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? O God...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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 5

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 540 pages
...' They prosper best of all when I am thence. ' '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,'I ' To be no better than a homely swain ; * To sit upon a hill, as I do now, * To carve out dials...
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Illustrations of Shakspeare; comprised in 230 vignette engravings by [J ...

John Thurston - 1830 - 176 pages
...walks, insulting o'er his prey; And so he comes to rend his limbs asunder. Act I. Scene III. A". Hen. Î God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain. Act II. Scene V. K. Hen. Let me embrace these sour adversities For wiser men say, it is the...
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Literary and Graphical Illustrations of Shakspeare, and the British Drama ...

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 than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point. Thereby to see...
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