 | Languages, Modern - 1865 - 494 pages
...many years ere I shall shear the 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. 3 Henry VI. Act 2 Scene 5. 127 Thou makest the vestal violate her oath ; Thou blow'st the fire when... | |
 | M. C. Bradbrook - Drama - 1979 - 294 pages
...can; So many years ere I shall shear the fleece: So minutes, hours, days, months and years, Passed over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. (2. 5. 31-40.) Such flat use of 'figures of speech', ie verbal pattern or Schemes is suddenly modulated... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...can; 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 a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...many months ere 1 shall shear the fleece. 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, what a life were this! So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell? a long farewell to all my greatness!... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...can; So many months ere I shall shear the fleece: So minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Past there is no firm reason to be render'd, Why he cannot abide a gaping pig; Why he, a harm life were this! how sweet! how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...many years ere I shall shear the fleece. So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, Passed over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. (2.5.21-40) The speech as a whole is a full and classic expression of the pastoral ideal which Shakespeare... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...can; 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 a sweeter shade To shepherds... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...can; So many months ere I shall shear the fleece: So minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Past idiculous, and thrasonical. He is too pickt, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it wer life were this! how sweet! how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking... | |
 | John D. Cox - Drama - 2007 - 368 pages
...could spend his hours like a homely shepherd, "So minutes, hours, days, months, and years, / Passed over to the end they were created, / Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave" (2.5.38-40). "If Henry had had his wish to be a shepherd," remarks MM Reese pointedly, "he would certainly... | |
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So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young; So many weeks ere the poor fools will... 
