 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...liberal eye doth give to every one, Thawing cold fear. Haw» Г [The Bletnngi of a Shepherd*! Life.] 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 see... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 592 Seiten
...! if God's good will were so : ' For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? * 0 God ! methiuks, 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... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 Seiten
...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!...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... | |
 | Marcus Noll - 1994 - 184 Seiten
...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 )... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 Seiten
...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 than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 Seiten
...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, swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 Seiten
...get on better without him, he meditates on how much happier he would be as a peasant than as a king. 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... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 Seiten
...content he would have if he were a simple shepherd: Would I were dead, if God's good will were so! For what is in this world but grief and woe? O God!...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... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 1958 - 336 Seiten
...generalized feeling that results is phrased by King Henry in a fine speech of Shakespearian pastoralism : 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 to 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, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring... 
