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... The Patrician - Page 304edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
| Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 418 pages
...: " 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...to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace,yet want his peeres"; u That Mr. COWLEY had his prince's grace appears from what the king said... | |
| Johannes von Müller - Europe - 1812 - 466 pages
...alte ©penfer. to 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 askings, yet wait many years, to fred thy soul with croffes and with cares to ead thy heart through... | |
| John Elihu Hall - Law - 1814 - 592 pages
...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 feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To fret thy soul with crosses and with care, To eat thy heart through comfortless despair; To fawn, to... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1815 - 558 pages
...excelled. Full little knowest thou that hast not spied What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long...put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with tear and sorrow : To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers ; To have thy asking, yet wait many... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...lines : ' 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...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 - 624 pages
...lines : ' 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...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
...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... | |
| Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 544 pages
...courtiers. M Ftill little knowest thou that hast not tried i What hell It is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long...grace, yet want her peers; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs;... | |
| 1820 - 496 pages
...history of one is that of all; and, in the emphatic language of Spenser, they were doomed " To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To fret their souls with crosses and with cares, To eat their hearts through comfortless despairs : Unhappy... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1825 - 370 pages
...poems. " Full little knowest thou that hast not tride 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 fear and sorrow ; To have thy princes... | |
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