 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
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...description is in his ' Mother Hubbard's Tale :' — 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 —... | |
 | J. H. Hippisley - English literature - 1837 - 378 pages
...,f Chap. viii. evidently to allude to his own ill-fortune, in the following well-known lines : — Full little knowest thou that hast not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide. To lose good days in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...understood to refer to his own disappointment: — • 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1838 - 1198 pages
...always understood to refer to his own disappointments. - Full little knpwesl thon, that bast not tried. What hell it is, in suing long to bide : To lose good days, tli >i might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to... | |
 | John Sheppard - Prayer - 1838 - 368 pages
...through successive years, as another of their number has mournfully recorded, " To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ?" And, shall a suitor to the court of heaven, believing the incomparable grandeur, and sure attainableness... | |
 | 1815 - 560 pages
...an example of terseness, which Pope has never excelled. Full liftle knowest thou that hast not spied 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... | |
 | 1839 - 742 pages
...feelingly sings in his Mother Hubbard's Tale, " What hell it was in suing, long to bide. To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights...pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-raorrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret the soul with crosses and with... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 450 pages
...some other portions of the same composition, been construed into a reflection on that nobleman: — " Full little knowest thou, that hast not tride, What hell it is, in suing long to bide : To loose good daycs, that might be better spent; To wast long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 444 pages
...the same composition, been construed into a reflection on that nobleman : — " Full little knowesl 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... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - Medicine - 1839 - 384 pages
...wretch. How truly has Spenser delineated his situation : " Full little know'st them 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... | |
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