 | Robert Chambers - 1902
...a shepherd's life with that of a king (3 Henry I '/,, Act il. se. v. 11. 21-54) : 0 God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely...full complete ; How many hours bring about the day ; 1 low many days will finish up the year ; How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known,... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - 1902 - 461 pągines
...of Shakespeare to pocket-dials, among them the shepherd's-dial, as in j Henry VI. " Oh God, methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely...by point; Thereby to see the minutes how they run, 120 How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903
...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 than a homely...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run ; Hpw many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903
...Shakespeare's 104th sonnet. Page 83, line 41. " Carved it out quaintly ..." King. O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely...now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point. " 3 Henry VI.," Act II., Scene 5, lines 21-24. Page 84, line 1. Marvell. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678),... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1906
...dead ! if God's good will were so ; For what is in this world but grief and woe ? »o O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely...Thereby to see the minutes how they run, — How many makes the hour full complete ; How many hours brings about the day ; How many days will finish up the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1906 - 268 pągines
...were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe ? O God 1 methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely...quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes tiow they run : How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 752 pągines
...were dead! if God's good will were so; 20 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...now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, 26 Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring... | |
 | James Stalker - 1913 - 292 pągines
...lifg_pjrernaturely. .and^ .b^in£jaegle^ed^JuiyQly£d—the landin confusion. Says a king: 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; When this is known, then to divide the times: So many hours must I tend my flock, So many hours must... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1913 - 159 pągines
...dead ! if God's good will were so ; For what is in this world but grief and woe ? 20 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, 25 How many makes the hour full complete, How many hours brings about the day, How many days will finish... | |
 | William Bayard Hale - 1920 - 303 pągines
...— unless it may be deliberately, like King Henry VI imitating a stupid shepherd: O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely...about the day, How many days will finish up the year; 171 How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then divide the times, — So many hours... | |
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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... 
