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| James Pettit Andrews - 1806 - 394 pages
...years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with care ; To eat thy heart thro' comfortless despair ; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run ; To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.' Jasper Jasper Heywood, DD the* son of the epiHey grammatist John,* before spoken of, died at Naples... | |
| William Shenstone, Thomas Park - 1808 - 342 pages
...of learn'd Eliza's reign To swell with tears his Mulla's parent stream, And mourn aloud the pang ' to ride, to run, ' To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.' Why should I tell of Cowley's pensive Muse, Belov'd in vain? too copious is my theme! Which of your... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 442 pages
...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, 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... | |
| John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...with crosses, and with cares; To eate thy heart through comfortlesse despaires ; To fawne, to crouche, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone. * Little indeed was to be expected from the execrable Philip, who is sometimes represented as a great... | |
| John Elihu Hall - Law - 1814 - 592 pages
...sorrow; To fret thy soul with crosses and with care, To eat thy heart through comfortless despair; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone; Unhappy wight! such hard fate doom'd to try; That curse God send unto mine enemy.— SPENSER. I quote... | |
| 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 - English literature - 1815 - 656 pages
...asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart thro' comfortless despairs'; ' To fawn, to crouch, to wait,...to run ; To spend, to* give, to want, to be undone. The experiment which Sir Philip Sidney and Gabriel Harvey patronized of introducing the Latin measures... | |
| 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 - English literature - 1815 - 558 pages
...asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart thro' comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait,...to run ; To spend, to give, to want, to be undone. The experiment which Sir Philip Sidney and Gabriel Harvey patronized of introducing the Latin measures... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with care, To eat thy heart through comfortless despair;* To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want — to be undone.' demanded, " What, all this for a song ? " The Queen replied, " Then give him what is reason." Spenser,... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with care, To eat thy heart through comfortless despair ;* To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want—to be undone.' demanded, "What, all this for a song?" The Queen replied, " Then give him what... | |
| Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 544 pages
...peers; To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch,...to run; To spend, to give, to want, to be undone." Mother Hubbard's Tale. One of the most laudable objects of the parsimony exercised by Elizabeth at... | |
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