 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...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 831839Full view - About this book
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 442 pages
...lines without yawning! " Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, " What Hell it is in sueing long to bide; " To lose good days, that might be better...to-morrow, " To 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,... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...little knowest thou, that hast not try'd, What hell it is in suing long to bide; To lose good dayes 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 and sorrow ; To fret thy soule... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 596 pages
...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 today, to be put back to morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow ; To have thy princes grace, yet want her... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 418 pages
...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...to-morrow ; 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... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 406 pages
...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...to-morrow ; 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... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 414 pages
...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...to-morrow ; 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... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 400 pages
...the following lines of SPENSER : " Full little knovvest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might...discontent : To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow j To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace,yet want his peeres";... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - Law - 1814 - 592 pages
...institute — but none of them contains • Ah! little knowest thou, who hast not try'd, What hell it is, in suing long to bide, To lose good days that might be better ipent, To pass 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 - English literature - 1815 - 656 pages
...Pope has never excelled. •' '• Full little knowest thou that hast not spied ' . What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might...to-morrow ; 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;... | |
 | 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
...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 days that might...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... | |
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