 | J. H. Hippisley - English literature - 1837 - 378 pages
...ill-fortune, in the following well-known lines : — 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... | |
 | 1815 - 560 pages
...an example of terseness, which Pope has never excelled. Full liftle knowest thou that hast not spied What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1838 - 1198 pages
...have been always understood to refer to his own disappointments. - Full little 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 discontent; To speed to-day, to be put... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...some of the misery «o feelingly described by Spenser fell to his lot : — ' FuU little knowest them, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to hide,' &c. "At length a gentleman of rank in the political world, a fast and firm friend to the author,... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - Medicine - 1839 - 384 pages
...and nearly heart-broken wretch. How truly has Spenser delineated his situation: " Full little know'st thou that hast not tried What hell it is, in suing...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... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - Medicine - 1839 - 384 pages
...nearly heart-broken wretch. How truly has Spenser delineated his situation : " Full little know'st them 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 fret... | |
 | 1839 - 742 pages
...! Too well he knew, as 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...spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-raorrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret... | |
 | Charles Mackay - England, Southern - 1840 - 426 pages
...! Too well he knew, as 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...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... | |
 | Frederick Guest Tomlins - English drama - 1841 - 66 pages
...Art and Literature," 1839, 8vo., price 1«. Mitchell. " Full little knowest thou that hast not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good...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... | |
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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... 
