 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...companions the beauty of such a scene, and, as they journey home, exclaim with a sigh, " O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain !" Many are the charms which strike the sportman's eye in his day's journey. With what carelessness... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Benjamin Humphrey Smart - English drama - 1839 - 490 pages
...dead, if God's good will were so! For what is in this world but woe and grief ? O heaven ! 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... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - Historical drama, English - 1840 - 354 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 428 pages
...dead, if God's good will were so i ' 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 by point, " Thereby... | |
 | Alfred Butler - 1841 - 310 pages
...clergyman by the external appearance of the village in which he resides. CHAPTER II. O God, methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain. HENRY vi. Act 2, Sc. 5. THE village of Westbourne, in the county of Leicester, is like ninety-nine... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 634 pages
...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 by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 644 pages
...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 1 do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 462 pages
...dead, if God's good will were so I ' 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 carve out dials quaintly, point by point, " Thereby to see the minutes how they run :... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 494 pages
...dead ! if God's good will were so ; For what is in this world but grief and woe? 0 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... | |
 | Gift books - 1845 - 386 pages
...JUDGE, and a SIGNER of the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ! THE SHEPHERD. SHAKSFE ARE . 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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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... 
