 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...  The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt - Page xxixby Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 361 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...miseries of a suitor for court favour, have been always understood to refer to his own disappointments. Full little knowest thou that hast not tride. What hell it is in suing long to bidei To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Anecdotes - 1807 - 538 pages
...must not be forgotten — those which begin thus — " Fall little knowest thou, that hast not try'd " What Hell it is, in suing long to bide." To lose good days — to waste long nights — and as he feelingly exclaims, " To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride,... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...represents expecting nothing as one of the Beatitudes. Full little knowest thou, that hast not try'd, What hell it is in suing long to bide; To lose good...waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to day, to be put back to morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret thy soule... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...fate Hath brought to court, to sue for had ywist, That few have found, and man'e one hath mist ! ' Full little knowest thou, that hast not tride. What Hell it is, in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent ; To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 406 pages
...rapture, repeated the following lines of SPENSER : " 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... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 418 pages
...rapture, repeated the following lines of SPENSER : " 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... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - Law - 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... | |
 | Mary Anne McMullan - 1816 - 376 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...court-favours, in the following beautiful lines : ' 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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...court-favours, in the follow-- ing beautiful lines : ' 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... | |
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