 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
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 266 pages
...them in his company. The poet vented his vexation and disappointment in those oft-quoted lines :. — "Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What...Spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ;t To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; . To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1848 - 564 pages
...them in his company. The poet vented his vexation and disappointment in those oft-quoted lines : — " Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What...to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pme with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, )et want her peer's; To have thy asking, yet... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 424 pages
...well he knew, as Spenser so feelingly sings in his "Mother Hubbard's Tale:"— • " What hell it was in suing long to bide, To lose good days that might be better spent ; To wasle long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put buck to-morrow ; To teed on hope,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...Mother Hubbard's Tale, though not printed till 1581, seem to belong to this period of his life:— ew one, an@ 1 1 ir good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...been always understood to refer to his own disappointment : — ' Full little knowest thou, that hnsl not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide : To lose good days, thai might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontenl ; To speed to-day, to be put... | |
 | Robert Milman - Authors, Italian - 1850 - 364 pages
...renewing the complaint over the discomfort and misery of this life. — Full little knowest thou, who hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose long days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent : To speed to-day... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd - 1845 - 654 pages
...had-ywitt, That few have found, and manle one hath mist ! Full little knowest tliou, that hast not tride. r fearing more to die : Nc dreading harme from any fo dayes, that might be better spent : To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 560 pages
...still wandering about Lincoln's Inn Hall, and exclaiming, — "Ah ! little know'st thou, who hast never tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; —...pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to morrow, — To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret the soul with crosses and with... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 566 pages
...still wandering about Lincoln's Inn Hall, and exclaiming, — "Ah ! little know'st thou, who hast never tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ;—...pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to morrow, — To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret the soul with crosses and with... | |
 | Robert Gibbes Barnwell - American literature - 1851 - 412 pages
...BATTURE CASE. BY HON. EDWARD LIVINGSTON, IN ANSWER TO THOMAS JEFFERSON. "Ah! little knowest thou, who hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide; To lose good days that might be better spent, To pass long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope,... | |
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