 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 páginas
...beginning of the thirty-third chapter of this instructive work. CHAP. XXXV. TABLE TALK. " Oh God ! methinks it were a happy life " To be no better than a homely swain." SHAK&PEARI. " IT is all owing to our departing from nature," said the Doctor, " or being what... | |
 | John Thurston - 1825 - 308 páginas
...o'er his prey; And so he comes to rend his limbs asunder. Act I. Scene III. K. Jim. O 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... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1826 - 384 páginas
...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 than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as 1 do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | 1826 - 382 páginas
...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 than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 318 páginas
...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 ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 312 páginas
...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 ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - 1828 - 430 páginas
...clouds contend with growing light ; Would I were dead ! if Heaven's good will were so. Methinks, O God, it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain, So that his hours, days, weeks, and months, and years Past over, to the end they were created,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 392 páginas
...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 than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point hy point, Therehy to see... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - 1828 - 440 páginas
...clouds contend with growing light ; Would I were dead ! if Heaven's good will were so. Methinks, O God, it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain, So that his hours, days, weeks, and months, and years Past over, to the end they were created,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...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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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... 
