 | 1820 - 496 pages
...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 and sorrow, To fret their souls with crosses and with cares, To eat their hearts through comfortless despairs... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 506 pages
...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 and sorrow ; To fret their souls with crosses and with cares, To eat their hearts through comfortless despairs... | |
 | Walter Scott - English fiction - 1822 - 370 pages
...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 and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her Peers', To have thy asking, yet wait many years ;... | |
 | Walter Scott - English fiction - 1822 - 378 pages
...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 and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her Peers', To have thy asking, yet wait many years ;... | |
 | United States - 1822 - 590 pages
...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 and sorrow ; To have thy princess' grace, yet want her peers ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 356 pages
...lose good dayes, that might be better spent ; To wast long nights 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 Princes grace, yet want her Peeres ; To have thy asking, yet waite manie... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1824 - 830 pages
...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 and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet wantherpeers; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1822 - 452 pages
...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 and sorrow, To fret thy sold with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1824 - 412 pages
...good days, that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensiv* discontent, To speed to -clay, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To fret thy soul wrth crosses and whh cares, To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1825 - 434 pages
...lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent j To speed to-day, to be put back 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... | |
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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 today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear... 
