 | William Shakespeare, Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1839 - 490 pagine
...Would I were 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...Thereby to see the minutes how they run; How many of them make the hour complete, How many hours will bring about the day, How many days will finish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pagine
...thoughts the Poet has attributed to him : — " Kingdoms are but cares ; State is devoid of stay ; ' To be no better than a homely swain ; * To sit upon...quaintly, point by point, * Thereby to see the minutes now they run ; * How many make the hour full complete, * How many hours bring about the day, * How... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 554 pagine
...subjoined, that he may compare them with the congenial thoughts the Poet has attributed to him:— ' To be no better than a homely swain ; * To sit upon...now, * To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, * How many make the hour full complete, * Thereby to see the minutes how they run; * How many hours... | |
 | Albert Edmund Waugh - 1973 - 260 pagine
...additional grandchildren as an industrious and persistent stork may bless me with in times to come O God! methinks it were a happy life. To be no better than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as l do now. To carve out dials quaintly, point by point. Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 836 pagine
...House of Lancaster : 0 God ! methinks it -were a happy life . To see the minutes how they run, TIow many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up Ihe year, How many years, &c. But Shakespeare knew better than to repeat this style of thing too. often.... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - 1990 - 552 pagine
...better than a homely swain; To sit upon the hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point to point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run How many make the hour full complete . . . How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times: So many hours must I tend... | |
 | Marcus Noll - 1994 - 184 pagine
...deutlicher Neid spürbar sowie ein klar ausgedrückter Wunsch, lieber Hirte als König sein zu wollen: O God! Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. [...] Ah, what a life were this! How sweet! How lovely ! (3 Henry VI, E, 5, 2l -22 und 41 ) Während... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pagine
...victors, breast to breast, Yet neither conqueror nor conquered. So is the equal poise of this fell war. O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better...point, 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... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pagine
...which cannot be trusted to the tell-tale day. (V, 74) [116] [On 3 Henry VI, 2.5.21 ff: King Henry. O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain] This speech is mournful and soft, exquisitely suited to the character of the king, and makes a pleasing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pagine
...thence. Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? О hee? EGEUS. Full of vexation come I, makes the hour full complete; Hew many hours brings about the day; How many days will finish up the... | |
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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... 
