 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
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1837 - 326 pages
...Spencer's, — " Full little knowest thou, who hast not tried, What hell it is, in sueing long, to bide ; To lose good days, that might be better spent ; 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,... | |
 | Frederick John Shore - Great Britain - 1837 - 562 pages
...state. Full little know'st thou, thou that hast not tried What hell it is in sueing 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 judge's grace, yet want his peers' •; To have... | |
 | J. H. Hippisley - English literature - 1837 - 370 pages
...Full little knowest thou that hast not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide, To lose good days in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peere's * ; To have thy asking, yet wait... | |
 | J. H. Hippisley - English literature - 1837 - 378 pages
...pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peere's * ; To have thy asking, yet wait many yeeres ; To eate thy heart through comfortless despaire ; To fawne, to erouche, to waite, to ride,... | |
 | 1815 - 560 pages
...never excelled. Full liftle 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...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1838 - 1198 pages
...knpwesl thon, that bast not tried. What hell it is, in suing long to bide : To lose good days, tli >i might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive...on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince>s' grace, yet want KIT peers' ; To have thy asking, yet wait many yearn; To frett thy sonl with... | |
 | John Sheppard - Prayer - 1838 - 368 pages
...Troy," or been induced, through successive years, as another of their number has mournfully recorded, " To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ?" And, shall a suitor to the court of heaven, believing the incomparable grandeur, and sure attainableness... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - Medicine - 1839 - 384 pages
...situation : " Full little know'st them that hast not tried What hell it is, in suing long to bide; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow : To fret the soul with crosses and with cares, To eat the bread thro' comfortless despairs." Having thus... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1839 - 708 pages
...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...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret the soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat the heart through comfortless despairs ; To fawn,... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...hell it is, in suin^ Iimu to biilc; To lose tood days that miglit be belter spent ; To waste loot; nights in pensive discontent. To speed to-day, to...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow : To fret the soul with crosses and with cares. To eat the bread thro' comfortless despairs.' " Havmg thus... | |
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