 | Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 psl.
...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, 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... | |
 | Marcus Noll - 1994 - 184 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 the minutes... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 psl.
...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 psl.
...were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? О God! methinks ll of vexation come I, sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 1958 - 336 psl.
...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 the minutes... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 psl.
...were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world bur grief and woe? О God! methinks t sing. HOTSPUR. 'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be redb sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 2002 - 390 psl.
...ordered things to their proper place, and man has natural obligations to fulfill. "O God! Methinks it were a happy life / To be no better than a homely swain. / To carve out dials quaintly, point by point. ... So many hours must I tend my flock, / So many hours must... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 psl.
...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 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... | |
 | Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson - 2003 - 286 psl.
...to studdy'. 21 Robert Parsons and the plight of Shakespeare's first Lancastrian 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 the minutes... | |
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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... 
