 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
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1888 - 490 pages
...sorrow, To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs. 1 o fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone." " Very strong, indeed," said I, with a competent air, as if used to judge of poetry. " And it comes... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1836 - 482 pages
...sorrow, To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, I'o eat thy heart through comfortless despairs, To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, lobe undone." " Very strong, indeed," said I, with a competent air, as if used to judge of poetry.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...a suitor for court favour, have been always understood to refer to his own disappointment: — • Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried. What...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 ; To frett... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 pages
...understood to refer to his own disappointment: — ' Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, W hat hell it is, in suing long to bide : To lose good days,...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 ; To frett... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1837 - 326 pages
...passage of Spencer's, — " Full little knowest thou, who hast not tried, What hell it is, in sueing long, to bide ; To lose good days, that might be better...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 ; To fawn,... | |
 | Frederick John Shore - 1837 - 562 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1815 - 560 pages
...an example of terseness, which Pope has never excelled. Full liftle knowest thou that hast not spied 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... | |
 | 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 - 1816 - 594 pages
...vicissitudes and humiliations which attend the life of an official man, condemned too frequently as he is, ' To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.' Al. de Pradt, like the rest of the world, has his partialities, bit favours and affections — in some... | |
 | John Sheppard - 1838 - 368 pages
...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... | |
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