 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 fear...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 771839Full view - About this book
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 pages
...disappointments. Full little knowest thou that hast not tride. What hell it is in suing long to bidei To lose good days that might be better spent ; To...pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back tomorrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 442 pages
...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...pensive discontent, " To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, " To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, " To fret thy soul with crosses and with... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...little knowest thou, that hast not try'd, What hell it is in suing long to bide; To lose good dayes 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 fret thy soule... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 418 pages
...repeated the following lines of SPENSER : " Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might...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 prince's grace,yet want his... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 414 pages
...SPENSER : " Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bid? : , To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To...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 prince's grace,yet want his... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - 1814 - 592 pages
...institute — but none of them contains • Ah! little knowest thou, who has* not 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 be put back to-morrow; To feed... | |
 | 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 - 1815 - 558 pages
...terseness, which Pope has 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...pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with tear and sorrow : To have thy prince's grace, yet want her... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...in the following 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...pensive discontent ; 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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...the follow-- ing 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...pensive discontent ; 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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