 | Robert Southey - Christian life - 1829 - 478 pages
...to " 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...is known, then to divide the times ; So many hours must I tend my flock ; So many hours must I take my rest ; So many hours must I contemplate ; So many... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...DCXIX. — — 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...is known, then to divide the times: So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...Bacon. DCXIX. Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a bill, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby...about the day, How many days will finish up the year, 0 How many years a mortal man may live. When this is kjiown, then to divide the times: So many hours... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...Thereby to sec the minutes how they run: * How many moke the hour full complete, * How many hours brin;,' about the day, * How many days will finish up the...known, then to divide the times : * So many hours must 1 tend my flock; * So many hours must I take my rest; * So many hours must I contemplate ; * So... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...? 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...is known, then to divide the times : So many hours must I tend my flock ; So many hours must I take my rest ; So many hours must 1 contemplate ; So many... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 540 pages
...do now, * To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, * Thereby to see the minutes how theyrun : * How many make the hour full complete, * How many hours...known, then to divide the times : * So many hours must I tend my flock ; * So many hours must I take my rest ; * So many hours must I c6ntemplate ; *... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 pages
...it were a happy life, ' To be no better than a homely swain ; * To sit upon a hill, as I do nciwj * To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, * Thereby...known, then to divide the times : * So many hours must I tend my flock; * So many hours must I take my rest; * So many hours must I contemplate ; * So... | |
 | English drama - 1831 - 232 pages
...I 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...up the year, How many years a mortal man may live. Act 2. Sc. 5. KING RICHARD THE THIRD : AN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY, BY WILLIAM SHAKSPEARB. IN the commencement... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...* To sit upon a hill, as I do now, * To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, * Thereby to sec the minutes how they run: * How many make the hour...known, then to divide the times : * So many hours must I tend my flock ; * So many hours must I take my rest ; * So many hours must I contemplate ; *... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 606 pages
...hill, as I do now, * To carve out dial« quaintly, point by point, * Thereby to see the minutes now n With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this must I tend my flock ; * So many hours must I take my rest ; * So many hours must I contemplate ; *... | |
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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: How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring... 
