 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 Irish Monthly - Стр. 121906Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - Страниц: 542
...thence. 'Would t 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, To be no better...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run ; How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - Страниц: 614
...'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 *, * To be...by point, * Thereby to see the minutes how they run : * How many make the hour full complete 9, * How many hours bring about the day, * How many days will... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - Страниц: 420
...The division of the map of life into its component parts is beautifully made by King Henry VI. " Oh God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run; How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - Страниц: 648
...so : ' For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? * O God ! methinks, it were a happy life 8, * To be no better than a homely swain : * To sit upon...by point, * Thereby to see the minutes how they run : * How many make the hour full complete 9, * How many hours bring about the day, * How many days will... | |
 | 1824 - Страниц: 462
...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 than a homely swain " &e. It is more than probable, that the poet had not seen his royal brother's verses, yet how admirably... | |
 | 1839 - Страниц: 608
...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... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - Страниц: 510
...That things ill got had ever bad success ? I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind. • : Alas ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain; — So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and yeai*, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - Страниц: 844
...beast, and all the vegetable reign. Shakspeare thns describes the pleasures of a shepherd's life :— O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better timn a hoineK swain . To sit upon a hill as I do now ; To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - Страниц: 384
...thence. : Would I were dead ! if God's good will were BO : For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? O God ! methinks, it were a happy life," To be no...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run : How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - Страниц: 442
...this world, but grief and wo? * O God ! methinks, it were a happy life, 234 THIRD PART OF Act 11. ' To be no better than a homely swain ; * To sit upon...by point, * Thereby to see the minutes how they run : * How many make the hour full complete, * How many hours brinff about the day, * How many days will... | |
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