 | Alexander Alexander - Fort Nashwaak (N.B.) - 1836 - 294 pages
...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 fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart, through comfortless despairs.... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...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 Tret their souls with crosses and with cares ; To eat their hearts through comfortless despairs.... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...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 thy Prince's grace, yet want her Peer's ; II. 2 M V <> ftfirt' thy ashing, yet wait... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...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 thy princess' grace, yet want her peers' ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1837 - 326 pages
...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 fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs... | |
 | J. H. Hippisley - English literature - 1837 - 378 pages
...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 and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peere's * ; To have thy asking, yet wait... | |
 | 1815 - 560 pages
...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 thy prince's grace, yet want her peers ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ;... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...lose tood days that miglit be belter spent ; To waste loot; 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 soul with crosses and with cares. To eat the bread thro' comfortless despairs.'... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - Medicine - 1839 - 398 pages
...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 fret the soul with crosses and with cares, To eat the bread thro' comfortless despairs."... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1839 - 746 pages
...To pass long days that might be better [spent, To waste long nights in hopeless discontent; To speed to-day to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine in fear and [sorrow ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with [cares, To eat thy heart with comfortlessdespairs;... | |
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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 today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear... 
