 | John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 pages
...tongue of the foxhound and the thrilling cheer of the huntsman are ready to greet his longing ear ? " If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work ; But when they seldom come, they wished-fer come." Out of respect to the immortal bard, I imagine... | |
 | Juvenal - Verse satire, Latin - 1839 - 570 pages
...ßnitimum est fasti* dium ; Cic. de Or. ii. PR. Shakspeare lias admirably expressed the like sentiment : " 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 ;" KH iv. pt. ii. A. I. sc. ii. JU. and again, "... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...youth, to skip over the meshes of good counsel the cripple. 9 — i. 2. 124 labour sweetens leisure. 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 accident. 18 — i.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 572 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 be as tedious as to work ; But, when they seldom come, they wished-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...hearing double recompense. Midsummer Niyht's Dream. Act iii. Scene 2. VARIETY PLEASING. Prince Henry. 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. 1st part... | |
 | William Plumer - American poetry - 1841 - 160 pages
...more His youthful playmates; rich in free exchange Of teeming fancies, wild at will to range, STUDY. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. SHAKSFEARI. Enough of boisterous sports, of joys that spring To hasty birth, in pleasure's noisy ring... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 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 be as tedious as to work ; But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 594 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 be as tedious as to work ; But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 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 be as tedious as to work ; But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 516 pages
...ride With .ugly rack on his celestial face.' Shakspeare's 33d Sonnet. »' Thus in Macbeth :— ACT I. 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. So, when... | |
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