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 Literary Magazine, and American Register - Page 180edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
| 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
...never 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...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 - 624 pages
...beautiful 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...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
...beautiful 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...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... | |
| 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...sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To... | |
| 1820 - 496 pages
...but the 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...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
...his 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... | |
| 1825 - 364 pages
...his 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 j To speed to day, to be put back to morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have... | |
| sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1820 - 336 pages
...nownsi thou, that hast not tried,- •, What hell it is in suing long to bide; To lose good days, ihat might be better Spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to day, to be put back to-morrpw; To feed on hope; to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy Prince's... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1820 - 330 pages
...little bio-west thon, that haStnot tried, What bell it is in suing long to hidcf To lose good days, ihat might be 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 have thy Prince's... | |
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