| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...Would brins; white hairs unto a quiet grave. * Ah, what a life were this! how sweet; how lovely I * Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade * To shepherds,...silly sheep, * Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy (!) Sinking into dejection. (3) To fore-slow is to be dilatory, to loiter * To kings, that fear their... | |
| 1832 - 206 pages
...generally preferred in hedges, on account of its close growth, hardiness, and strong defence of thorns. GIVES not the Hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroidered canopy To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery? 68 THUS sang they all the service... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1833 - 496 pages
..." So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, " Pass'd over to the end they were created, " Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. , " Ah,...O, yes, it doth ; a thousand fold it doth. " And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds ; " His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, " His... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 556 pages
...* So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, * Passed over to the end they were created, * Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. * Ah,...looking on their silly sheep, * Than doth a rich, embroidered canopy * To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? * O, yes it doth ; a thousand... | |
| Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 pages
...love this generous wayside friend ; Shakspeare, in Henry IV., says — Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly...canopy To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? • From an unpublished Poem by the Author. Chaucer thus alludes to the good and pleasant old custom... | |
| Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 pages
...poets love this generous wayside friend ; Shakspeare, in Henry IV., says— Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly...doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings, that fear then- subjects' treachery ? 55 Chaucer thus alludes to the good and pleasant old custom of going a... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 646 pages
...created, * Would bring white hairs unto a quiet crave. * Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet! now haublo boats daro sail Upon rirh emhroider'd canopy * To kings, that fear tht-ir subjects' treachery ? ' O, yes it doth ; a thousand... | |
| William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...fleece : So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what...? O, yes, it doth; a thousand fold it doth. And to conclude — The shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted... | |
| Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich cmhroidcr'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects' treachery ? O ! yes, it doth ; a thousand fold it doth." In " The Deserted Village," Goldsmith rather varies the picture, and shows us " The hawthorn bush,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1838 - 360 pages
...fleece : So many minutes, hours, weeks, months, and years Past over, to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah ! what...shepherds looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroidered canopy To kings that fear their subjects' treachery ? O yes it doth, a thousand-fold it... | |
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