 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...  Tales of Fashionable Life - Страница 176по Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 400 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 страници
...hearers. Speaking of the alchymists, Mr. Phillips said that, in the language of Spencer, they were doomed "To lose good days that might be better spent,—...To feed on hope; to pine with fear and sorrow; To Tret their souls with crosses and with cares ; To eat their hearts through comfortless despairs. Unhappy... | |
 | Frederick John Shore - 1837 - 562 страници
...pretence of more deliberate j ustice."? So pitiful a thing is suitor's state. Full little know'st thou, thou that hast not tried What hell it is in sueing...To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed in hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy judge's grace, yet want his peers' •; To have... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 страници
...own disappointment: — ' Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, W hat hell it is, in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better...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 ; To frett... | |
 | J. H. Hippisley - 1837 - 370 страници
...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 feare and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peere's * ; To have thy asking, yet wait... | |
 | 1815 - 560 страници
...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...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 ; To fret thy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 страници
...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...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince>s' grace, yet want KIT peers' ; To have thy asking, yet wait many yearn; To frett thy... | |
 | John Sheppard - 1838 - 368 страници
...Troy," or been induced, 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... | |
 | 1839 - 742 страници
...well he knew, as Spenser so 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...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1839 - 746 страници
...sighing long to bide, To pass long days that might be better [spent, To waste long nights in hopeless discontent; To speed to-day to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine in fear and [sorrow ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with [cares, To eat thy heart with comfortlessdespairs;... | |
 | Woman - 1840 - 806 страници
...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 to-day,...put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow ; * ' * • * To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares; To eate thy heart through... | |
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