| Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...pitiful a thing is Suitor's state! Most miserable man, whome wicked fate Hath brought to court, tn sue for had-ywist, That few hath found, and many one...lose good days that might be better spent, To waste lone nights in pensive discontent. To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine... | |
| John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 566 pages
...favour was so dilatory ; vet much and many of them, the sensitive pan of his nature made him undergo : " To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste...discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, t To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers' ;... | |
| John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 564 pages
...was so dilatory ; yet much and many of them, the sensitive part of his nature made him undergo : " To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste...nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be pnt back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet... | |
| John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 578 pages
...favour was so dilatory ; vet much and many of them, the sensitive part of his nature made him undergo: " To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste...nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to in- put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace,... | |
| John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 572 pages
...was so dilatory ; vet much and many of them, the sensitive part of his nature made him undergo : " To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To ipeed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy... | |
| William Thomas Brande - Chemistry - 1830 - 678 pages
...might lie better uncut, To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To n]iccd to-<lay, to he put hack to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret their souls with crosses and with cares, To cat their hearts through comfortless despairs : l-uhappy... | |
| William Thomas Brande - Chemistry - 1830 - 682 pages
...and, in the emphatic language of Spenser, they were doomed " To lose good days that might ho butter spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to he put hack to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret their souls with crosses... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1831 - 476 pages
...thou that hast not tried, ' What Hell it is in sueing long to bide ; To lose good days, that might he better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrowf ', To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To fret thy soul with crosses and with... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 356 pages
...ten lines without yawning ! " Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in sueing long to bide ; To lose good days, that might be better...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs, To fawn,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1832 - 448 pages
...little knowest thou, that hast not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good dayes, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights...put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peeres ; To have thy asking, yet waite... | |
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