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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 to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear... "
The Retrospective Review - Page 150
1825
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 5

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...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 1

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,...
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Tales of Fashionable Life, Volume 1

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...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 soul...
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Spenser, Daniel

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...
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Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of ..., Volume 1

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 dayes that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to day, to be...
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Moral and political dialogues

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...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...
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The works of Richard Hurd, Volume 3

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...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...
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The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Moral and political ...

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...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...
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The American Law Journal, Volume 5

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 back to-morrow; To feed...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

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...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 ; To have thy Prince's...
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