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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... "
William Shakspeare's Complete Works, Dramatic and Poetic - Page 66
by William Shakespeare - 1852
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Ephemera

George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - Canterbury (N.Z.) - 1865 - 412 pages
..." Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so ! For what is in this world, but grief and woe 1 O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better...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 about the...
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Evenings in Arcadia

John Dennis - Pastoral poetry, English - 1865 - 344 pages
...familiar passage in Part III., in which the king covets the peaceful life of the shepherd boy : — " O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better...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 about the...
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Shaksperean gems, newly collected and arranged with a life of W. Shakspere ...

William Shakespeare - 1865 - 362 pages
...lands, Is nothing left me but my body's length! KING HENRY THE SIXTH'S REFLECTIONS ON A SHEPHERD'S LIFE. Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than...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 about the...
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The Handy-volume Shakspeare [ed. by Q.D.].

William Shakespeare - 1866 - 730 pages
...thence. 'Would I were dead ! if God's 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...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 about the...
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King Henry VI, part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1866 - 382 pages
...thence. 'Would I were dead ! if God's 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...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 about the...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: First part of King Henry VI. Second part ...

William Shakespeare - 1866 - 614 pages
...thence. Would I were 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...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 about...
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Curiosities of Clocks and Watches: From the Earliest Times

Edward J. Wood - Clocks and watches - 1866 - 464 pages
...centre ; So many a thousand actions, once afoot, End in one purpose." Henry F, ai, s. 2. " King Henry O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better...carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run." Henry VI. Part III., a. ii., s. 5. CHAPTER III. Curious Griffin Clock...
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The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols ...

William Shakespeare - 1867 - 912 pages
...good will were so : » Fore-tlaw — delay— !oit:r. For what is in this world but grief and woe ? О God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better...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 about the...
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The Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1867 - 1092 pages
...thence. Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so ; For what is in this world but grief and woe? 20 usiness 450 I must uneasy make, lest too light winning...That thou attend me : thou dost here usurp The nam see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete ; How many hours bring about the...
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The Stratford Shakspere: King Henry V. King Henry Vi. King Richard iii. King ...

William Shakespeare - 1867 - 610 pages
...am thence. 'Would I were dead! if God's 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...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 about the...
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