 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 648 pages
...' They prosper best of all when I am thence. ' 'Would I 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 8, * To be no better than a homely swain : * To sit upon a hill, as I do now, * To carve out dials... | |
 | 1824 - 462 pages
...sentiments 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 " &e. It is more than probable, that the poet had not seen his royal brother's verses, yet how... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 614 pages
...Margaret my queen, and Clifford too, ' Have chid me from the battle ; swearing both, ' They prosper best of all when I am thence. ' 'Would I 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 *, *... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 384 pages
...Margaret my Queen, and Clifford too, Have chid me from the battle ; swearing both, They prosper best of all when I am thence. : Would I were dead ! if God's good will were BO : For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? O God ! methinks, it were a happy life," To be... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1823 - 268 pages
...recommending that economy 'iftime, s. beautifully pourtrayed by the great bard, wr have jus> quoted. " 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, Tu carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 442 pages
...Margaret my queen, and Clifford too, ' Have chid me from the battle ; swearing both, ' They prosper best of all when I am thence. ' "Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so : ' For what is in this world, but grief and wo? * O God ! methinks, it were a happy life, 234 THIRD... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 590 pages
...Margaret my queen, and Clifford too, ' Have chid me from the battle; swearing both, « They prosper best of all when I am thence. « 'Would I 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, 2 '... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...Margaret my queen, and Clifford too, Have chid me from the battle ; swearing both. They prosper best of all when I am thence. 'Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so . For what is in this world, but grief and wo? * 0 God ! melhinks, it were a happy life. To be no... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pages
...blowing of his nails, Can neither call it perfect day, nor night. THE BLESSINGS OF A SHEPHERD'S LIFE. 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 - 1824 - 324 pages
...Margaret my queen, and Clifford too, ' Have chid me from the battle ; swearing both, ' They prosper best of all when I am thence. ' 'Would I were dead ! if God's good will were «o : 1 For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? * O God ! methinks, it were a happy life, '... | |
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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... 
