 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...  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 73a cura di - 1815Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Frederick John Shore - 1837 - 562 pagine
...thing is suitor's state. Full little know'st thou, thou that hast not tried What hell it is in sueing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better...To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed in hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy judge's grace, yet want his peers' •; To have... | |
 | J. H. Hippisley - 1837 - 370 pagine
...Full little knowest thou that hast 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... | |
 | J. H. Hippisley - 1837 - 378 pagine
...ill-fortune, in the following well-known lines : — Full little knowest thou that hast 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... | |
 | 1815 - 560 pagine
...perceived the fittest application) an example of terseness, which Pope has never excelled. Full liftle knowest thou that hast not spied What hell it is in...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... | |
 | John Sheppard - 1838 - 368 pagine
...Troy," or been induced, through successive years, as another of their number has mournfully recorded, " To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ?" And, shall a suitor to the court of heaven, believing the incomparable grandeur, and sure attainableness... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pagine
...always understood to refer to his own disappointments. - Full little knpwesl thon, that bast not tried. What hell it is, in suing long to bide : To lose good days, tli >i might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - 1839 - 384 pagine
...wretch. How truly has Spenser delineated his situation : " Full little know'st them that hast not tried What hell it is, in suing long to bide; To lose good...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... | |
 | 1839 - 742 pagine
...! Too well he knew, as Spenser so feelingly sings in his Mother Hubbard's Tale, " What hell it was in suing, long to bide. To lose good days, that might...pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-raorrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret the soul with crosses and with... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pagine
...hell it is, in suin^ Iimu to biilc; To lose tood days that miglit be belter spent ; To waste loot; nights in pensive discontent. To speed to-day, to...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1839 - 746 pagine
...sighing long to bide, 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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