 | Edward J. Wood - 1866 - 464 pàgines
...thousand actions, once afoot, End in one purpose." Henry F, ai, s. 2. " King Henry O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run." Henry VI. Part III., a. ii., s. 5. CHAPTER III. Curious Griffin Clock — Water-Clock — Frankfort... | |
 | 1866 - 606 pàgines
...use mean something longer than a year. He might quote Shakspearo to prove that — " To c»rve ont dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the...many hours bring about the day ; How many days will finUh up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.1* Henry VI. part 8, act 2, «c. 6. It was... | |
 | Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 pàgines
...LIFE. OGOD ! 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...about the day ; How many days will finish up the year ; When this is known, then to divide the times: How many years a mortal man may live. So many hours... | |
 | 1867 - 632 pàgines
...might yield to the influence of the place, and with Shakespeare's Henry VI. exclaim, — " Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run. The shepherd's homely curds — His thin cold drink out of his leathern bottle— His wonted sleep... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1868 - 786 pàgines
...dead ! if God's good will were so : For what is in this world but grief and woeï О God ! methinks e ЛУНЬ any just reproach? Claud. Marry, that can...he talk'd with you yesternight Out at your window, Iiow they run : How many make the hour full complete. How many hours bring about the day. How many... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 168 pàgines
...spear, And each imprisoned hero quaked for fear. Swift. 54 PASTORAL DUTIES AND DELIGHTS. 1V/TETHINKS it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely...now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, THE BOOK Of ELEGANT EXTRACTS. Thereby to see the minutes how they run : How many make the hour full... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1870 - 358 pàgines
...wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the? more a fool, the more a knave. — Pope. O God ! methinkft it were a happy life To be no better than a homely...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run. — Shak. Poor guiltless I ! and can 1 choose but smiler, When every coxcomb knows me by my style.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pàgines
...WILLIAM RANKIN DURYEA. A SHEPHERD'S LIFE, ntou "THIRD PART or HENRY vi." KINO HENRY. 0 God! methinks, said I, " If they ran ; How many make the hour full complete ; How many hours bring about the day ; How many Jays will... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 602 pàgines
...family of the Lindseys, and longing in his soliloquies that he were a shepherd : " Oh God ! mcthinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run." On the tame moors, and on the tells of Cumberland, the tcrond gtn«. ration following, the successor... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1872 - 368 pàgines
...wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the? more a fool, the more a knave. — Pope. O God ! methinkni it were a happy life To be no better than a homely...point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they rnn. — Shak. Poor guiltless I ! and can I choose but smiler, "When every coxcomb knows me by my style.... | |
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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... 
