 | Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it." " How little knowest thou who hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide, To waste Ions; days that may be better spent, To pass long nights in cheerless... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1837 - 326 pages
...told us of his disappointments at court. He quoted that deeply pathetic 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 spent ; To waste long nights in pensive... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - Court life - 1839 - 252 pages
...from , that he has got a blank in the lottery; and he has little hopes of court preferment. Poor soul! what odd foundations he builds his hopes on! I would...little knowest thou, who hast not tried, What hell it ia in hoping long to bide.' Perhaps you may some time or other endeavour to turn the Princess's favour... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...it were, with the very heart's blood of the poet — that we cannot forbear quoting it here : — " Full little knowest thou who 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... | |
 | Robert Milman - Authors, Italian - 1850 - 364 pages
...greater poet than Bernardo, renewing the complaint over the discomfort and misery of this life. — Full little knowest thou, who hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose long days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive... | |
 | Robert Gibbes Barnwell - American literature - 1851 - 412 pages
...NEW-ORLEANS BOOK. THE BATTURE CASE. BY HON. EDWARD LIVINGSTON, IN ANSWER TO THOMAS JEFFERSON. "Ah! little knowest thou, who hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide; To lose good days that might be better spent, To pass long nights in pensive discontent;... | |
 | Education - 1852 - 844 pages
...maketh the heart sick," to enable us all to fcel the full force of every word in that famous passage : " Full little knowest thou who 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... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - English poetry - 1865 - 394 pages
...Better it is to die. better to starve, Than erave the hire which first we do deserve."—SHAKESPEARE. " Full little knowest thou who hast not tried What hell it is in sucing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent; To waste long nights in peusive... | |
 | James Payn - 1872 - 274 pages
...fail, it will not break my heart.' ' I am not so sure of that, dear lad,' said my father gravely. ' " Full little knowest thou, who hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to ride ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in. feverish... | |
 | James Payn - 1872 - 276 pages
...fail, it will not break my heart.' ' I am not so sure of that, dear lad,' said my father gravely. ' " Full little knowest thou, who hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to ride ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in feverish... | |
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Full little knowest thou, who 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 spend to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with... 
