 | John Adams - Great Britain - 1803 - 486 pages
...• Full little doll thou know that hail not tried, What hell it is in filing long to bide ; To fpeed to-day ; to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with care and forrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peer's ; To gain thy afking, yet want many... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 440 pages
...good dayes, that might be better fpent ; " To waft long nights in penfive difcontent ; • rt To fpeed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; " To feed on hope, to pine with feare and fbrraw ; " To have thy Princes grace, yet want her Peeres;, " To have thy afking, yet waite... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 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...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peere's ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To frett thy... | |
 | James Pettit Andrews - 1806 - 394 pages
...Burleigh: ' Full little dost thou know that hast not try'd \Vhat hell it is, in suing long to bide. To speed to-day ; to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with care and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peer's ; To gain thy asking, yet wait many... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Anecdotes - 1807 - 538 pages
...must not be forgotten — those which begin thus — " Fall little knowest thou, that hast not try'd " What Hell it is, in suing long to bide." To lose good days — to waste long nights — and as he feelingly exclaims, " To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride,... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1809 - 696 pages
...honours, we would address ourselves in the language of the experienced Spenser. Full little knowcst thou that hast not tried, What Hell it is, in suing long to bide ; To loose good days, thai might bo better spent, Ti> waste Ion-; night* in pensive discontent; To speed... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 442 pages
...Devereux, "you would do better to sit or lie still all your life, than toil for such vain objects. " Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, " What Hell it is in sueing long to bide. " Your lordship may remember Spencer's description of that Hell?" " Not exactly,"... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...represents expecting nothing as one of the Beatitudes. Full 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... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 406 pages
...reproachful smile, he turned upon me, and, in a kind of rapture, repeated the following lines of SPENSER : " Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace,yet want his peeres"; " That Mr. COWLEY had his prince's grace appears from... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 418 pages
...reproachful smile, he turned upon me, and, in a kind of rapture, repeated the following lines of SPENSER : " Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace,yet want his peeres"; u That Mr. COWLEY had his prince's grace appears from... | |
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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... 
