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" If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. "
A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ... - Page 399
by Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 644 pages
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volumes 40-42

1867 - 1462 pages
...It was upon a holiday When Sheephcrds groomes han leave to play, I cast to go a shooting. Spenser. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. Shakespeare. Wir bemerken jedoch dagegen, dass Johnson diese Unterscheidung nicht kennt. Die Erklärungen...
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Elements of Criticism: With Analyses, and Translation of Ancient and Foreign ...

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1847 - 516 pages
...would be an acceptable present. Whatever be the cause, it is certain that we are much influenced • If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would...tedious as to work: But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. 17 First Part Henry IV. Act I. St i. by custom:...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John ...

William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 506 pages
...wonder 'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours, that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would...tedious as to work ; But, when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour 1 throw off,...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours, that did seem to strangle him. u, and endless night, Have done me shame : — brave...pardon me, That any accent breaking from thy tongu wishM-forcome, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off,...
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Sketch of the life of Shakespeare. Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Merry ...

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...wondcr'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours, that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would...tedious as to work ; But, when they seldom come, they wish'd-for com And nothinsr pleascth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off,...
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The Dramatic Works of W. Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapors, that did seem to strangle him. hakespeare wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents: So, when this loose behavior I throw off,...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 606 pages
...wondered at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapors, that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would...tedious as to work ; But, when they seldom come, they wished-for come, And nothing pleascth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behavior I throw off,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Winter's tale. Comedy of errors ...

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 576 pages
...wondered at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapors, that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would...tedious as to work ; But, when they seldom come, they wished-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behavior I throw off,...
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Episodes of Insect Life

L. M. Budgen - 1850 - 418 pages
...August is their usual season for disrobing. r in \Aiurts of tfr Sairj Queen BUSINESS AND PLEASUEE. " If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work." ALL the worlds within our world of earth are now supereminently busy. The fashionable world is making...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 744 pages
...wondered at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapors, that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would...tedious as to work ; But, when they seldom come, they wished-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behavior I throw off,...
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