 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...  Book of Elegant Poetical Extracts - Page 153by John T. Watson - 1869 - 506 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1809 - 696 pages
...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... | |
 | 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...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace,yet want his peeres"; u That Mr. COWLEY had his prince's grace appears from... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 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...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace,yet want his peeres"; " That Mr. COWLEY had his prince's grace appears from... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 414 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pages
...an example of terseness, which Pope has never excelled. Full little knowest thou that hast not spied What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good...put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with tear and sorrow : To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers ; To have thy asking, yet wait many... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 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...To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed in hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers', To have thy... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 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...To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed in hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers', To have thy... | |
 | Mary Anne McMullan - 1816 - 376 pages
...share of a small property, to be divided among a tribe of brothers and sisters. Had I never learnt " 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 in hope, to pine with fear and sorrow;" I might now have... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 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...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 ; To fret thy... | |
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