 | 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 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,... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...vividly depicted the misfortune of depending on court-favours, in the follow-- ing beautiful lines : ' Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...vividly depicted the misfortune of depending on court-favours, in the following beautiful lines : ' Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried. What...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... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 544 pages
...and the sufferings of her unfortunate courtiers. M Ftill little knowest thou that hast not tried i What hell It is in suing long to bide ; To lose good...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... | |
 | 1825 - 364 pages
...'the passage one of the most celebrated of his poems. " Full little knowest thou that hast not tride What hell it is, in suing, long to bide: To lose good...be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent j To speed to day, to be put back to morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1820 - 336 pages
...Mother Hubberd's fait was levelled. . •. . J .. • ;. .,.; .; . . • , ! Full little T. nownsi thou, that hast not tried,- •, What hell it is in suing long to bide; To lose good days, ihat might be better Spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to day, to be put... | |
 | United States - 1822 - 590 pages
...these remarkable lines, where the misery of dependence on court-favour is painted in fine colours : — Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - English fiction - 1822 - 370 pages
...many a one hath miss'd ! 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 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... | |
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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... 
