 | Robert Plumer Ward - England - 1841 - 300 pages
...disappointed ambition may every word of it be applied to a heart that places its love beyond its sphere— " To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent; t To speed to-day, to be put back tc-morrow, To feed on hope, to p:ne in fear and sorrow, To fret thy... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...Tale :" — " Full little knowest thou that hast not try'd, What hell it is in suing long to byde ; 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... | |
 | 1841 - 502 pages
...old age seizes hold of him, and death pushes him into the grave. Spenser has written his epitaph. " To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To spend to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 770 pages
...hath miss'd! Full little knowcst tliou, that hast not tried, What bell it is, in sucing long to lüde: B H 5 Ś B H 5y ( J To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy... | |
 | 1843 - 862 pages
...court to sue for had y wist That few have found, and many more have miss'd ; Full little knowest tliou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long...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... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 512 pages
...squandered, proving the description of Spenser to be no exaggeration : " Full little knowest thou that has not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide...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 the... | |
 | The Dublin University Magazine.VOL.XXII July to December,1843 - 1843 - 770 pages
...wist, That few have found, and mannie one hath mist ! Full 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 in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...Tale, though not printed till 1581, seem to belong to this period of his Ufe : — Full little knowest \O i : 驲y g {^Ѿ t Y7? ~, 7 G? / | wn ... ? O o 'O{ {~ KO } [ 9t o _. c ۇ ; W} ; To speed to-day, to be put bock to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have... | |
 | Lemuel Sawyer - Legislators - 1844 - 160 pages
...sunshine, dreading the clouded brow. < Ah ! little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is iii suing long to bide, To lose good days that might be...spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent,' &c., &c. " Spencer has well described the secrets of this life, and technically it is called ploughing... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...description of Detraction is given. Thus, too, the poet sums up the uneasiness and unhappiness of his life: "To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, and to be put back tomorrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have... | |
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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... 
