 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1901 - 546 pages
...sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young; So many weeks ere the poor fools will can ; So many years ere I shall shear the fleece : So minutes,...Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet ! how lovely I Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly sheep, Than doth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1901 - 396 pages
...sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young; So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean; So many years ere I shall shear the fleece : So minutes,...Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet ! how lovely 1 Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly sheep, Than doth... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...sport myself ; So many days my ewes have been with young ; So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean ; s, awaye wyth the lyghte of the Gospel, and vp with...superstition and idolātrie, sensing, peintynge of ! ho«- lovely ! Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...sport myself ; So many days my ewes have been with young ; So many weeks ere the poor fools will can ; embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes, it doth ; a thousand-fold... | |
 | William Burgess - Bible - 1903 - 322 pages
...divide the times. So many hours must I tend my flock ; So many hours must I take my rest ; . . . . So minutes, hours, days, months and years, Pass'd...were this ! how sweet ! how lovely ! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly sheep Than doth a rich embroider'd... | |
 | John Masefield - Biography & Autobiography - 1911 - 280 pages
...Shakespeare's best moments in the days before he attained to power. "So minutes, hours, days, moneths and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created,...shepherds looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich-embroidered canopy To kings that fear their subjects' treachery." A Midsummer Night's Dream. Written.... | |
 | Thomas Carter - 1912 - 332 pages
...sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young ; So many weeks ere the poor fools will can ; So many years ere I shall shear the fleece : So minutes,...shepherds looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes, it doth ; a thousand-fold... | |
 | Charles Henry Poole - English poetry - 1914 - 450 pages
...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...Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet ! how lovely 1 Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly sheep, Than doth... | |
 | Robert Bridges - English literature - 1916 - 368 pages
...Would I were dead ! — if God's good will were so ; For what is in this world but grief and woe ? How many make the hour full complete, How many hours...were this ! how sweet ! how lovely ! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd... | |
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So many years ere I shall shear the fleece ; So minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet ! how lovely ! Gives not the hawthorn-bush... 
