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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... "
The Lusiad: Or, the Discovery of India. An Epic Poem. Translated from the ... - Page 169
by Luís de Camões - 1798
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A little earnest book upon a great old subject

William Wilson (author of A house for Shakspere.) - 1851 - 240 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...
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The Fortunes of Nigel: With 52 Illus

Sir Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1910 - 612 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 Prince's grace, yet want her Peers' ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years...
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A First Book in English Literature

Henry Spackman Pancoast, Percy Van Dyke Shelly - English literature - 1910 - 564 pages
...To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To wast long nights 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 Princes grace, yet want her Peeres; To have thy asking, yet waite manie...
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John Lyly: contribution à l'histoire de la renaissance en Angleterre

Albert Feuillerat - Renaissance - 1910 - 700 pages
...good dayes, 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 feare and sorrow; To hâve thy Princes grâce, yet want her Peeres ; To hâve thy asking, yet waite...
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The Vista of English Verse

English poetry - 1911 - 784 pages
...good dayes, that might be better spent ; To wast long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to day, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow; To have thy Princes grace, yet want her Peeres ; To have thy asking, yet waite manie...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 29

Methodist Church - 1847 - 660 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 his peers' ; To have the asking, yet wait many years...
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Spenser & His Poetry

S. E. Winbolt - 1912 - 164 pages
...that might | be bet | ter spent ; To waste | long nights I in pen | sive dis | content ; To speed | to-day, | to be | put back | to-morrow ; To feed | on hope, | to pine | with fear | and sorrow. This form of verse is already very much in the condition in which it was taken up by Dryden....
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Historical Manual of English Prosody

George Saintsbury - English language - 1914 - 378 pages
...might | be bet | ter spent; To waste To speed To have To have long nights | in pen|sive dis|content; to-day, | to be | put back | to-morrow ; To feed | on hope, | to pine | with fear | and sorrow; thy Prin |ce's grace, | yet want | her Peer's ; thy ask | ing, yet | wait ma|ny years ; To...
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The Poets Laureate of England: Their History and Their Odes

William Forbes Gray - English poetry - 1914 - 386 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 ;...
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University Lectures Delivered by Members of the ..., Volume 1; Volumes 1913-1914

University of Pennsylvania - 1915 - 612 pages
...To loose good dayes that might be better spent; To w&st 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 eate thy heart through comfortlesse despaires...
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