 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...  Spenser and the Faery Queen - Pàgina 7per Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1847 - 246 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 pàgines
...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 waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back tomorrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | 1809 - 696 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 - 1811 - 406 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 418 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 414 pàgines
...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 hell it is in suing long to bid? : , To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - 1814 - 592 pàgines
...the national 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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pàgines
...author has vividly depicted the misfortune of depending on court-favours, in the following beautiful lines : ' Full little knowest thou, that hast not...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 ; To have... | |
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