 Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with...  Britomart - Page xvby Edmund Spenser - 1903 - 266 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Isaac Disraeli - Anecdotes - 1807 - 538 pages
...must not be forgotten — those which begin thus — " Fall little knowest thou, that hast not try'd " What Hell it is, in suing long to bide." To lose good days — to waste long nights — and as he feelingly exclaims, " To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride,... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1809 - 696 pages
...honours, we would address ourselves in the language of the experienced Spenser. Full little knowcst thou that hast not tried, What Hell it is, in suing long to bide ; To loose good days, thai might bo better spent, Ti> waste Ion-; night* in pensive discontent; To speed... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 442 pages
...Devereux, "you would do better to sit or lie still all your life, than toil for such vain objects. " Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, " What Hell it is in sueing long to bide. " Your lordship may remember Spencer's description of that Hell?" " Not exactly,"... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...represents expecting nothing as one of the Beatitudes. Full little knowest thou, that hast not try'd, What hell it is in suing long to bide; To lose good dayes that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to day, to be... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 414 pages
...smile, . he turned upon me, and, in a kind of rapture, repeated the following lines of SPENSER : " Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bid? : , To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - Law - 1814 - 592 pages
...the national institute — but none of them contains • Ah! little knowest thou, who has* not try'd, What hell it is, in suing long to bide, To lose good days that might be better (pent, To pus long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...vividly depicted the misfortune of depending on court-favours, in the following beautiful lines : ' Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried. What...To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed in hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers', To have thy... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...vividly depicted the misfortune of depending on court-favours, in the follow-- ing beautiful lines : ' Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What...To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed in hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers', To have thy... | |
 | Mary Anne McMullan - 1816 - 376 pages
...share of a small property, to be divided among a tribe of brothers and sisters. Had I never learnt " To lose good days, that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed in hope, to pine with fear and sorrow;" I might now have... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1825 - 370 pages
...the passage one of the most celebrated of his poems. " Full little knowest thou that hast not tride What hell it is, in suing, long to bide : To lose...waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to day, to be put back to morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy princes... | |
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