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 to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with... The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser - Page xviiiby Edmund Spenser - 1839Full view - About this book
| Johannes von Müller - 1812 - 464 pages
...dicere possum, nihil esse tanti, unb t>or ber S5íUetít'' jagb warne 2){ф ber alte ©genfer. to waste long nights in pensive discontent to speed to day,...be put back to morrow to feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow tp have thy askings, yet wait many years, to fred thy soul with erodes and with cares... | |
| Mary Anne McMullan - 1816 - 376 pages
...brothers and sisters. Had I never learnt " 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 in hope, to pine with fear and sorrow;" I might now have been on the road to independence... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1825 - 370 pages
...tride 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,...put back to morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy princes grace, yet want her peers; To have thy asking, yet wait many... | |
| 1825 - 364 pages
...expression, which has made 'the passage one of the most celebrated of his poems. " Full little knowest thou that hast not tride 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 j To speed to... | |
| sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1820 - 336 pages
...•, What hell it is in suing long to bide; To lose good days, ihat might be better Spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to day, to be put back to-morrpw; To feed on hope; to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy Prince's grace; yet want her... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1820 - 330 pages
...tried, What bell it is in suing long to hidcf To lose good days, ihat might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to day, to be put back to-morrowf To feed on hope; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace; yet want tier... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 356 pages
...Court, to sue for tiud-i/u isl , That few have found, and manie one hath mist ! Full little knowest thou, that hast not tride, What hell it is, in suing long to bide : To lose good dayes, that might be better spent ; To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed... | |
| Walter Scott - English fiction - 1822 - 296 pages
...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 muny... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1825 - 450 pages
...ywist, That few have found, and manie one hath mist ! Pull little knowest thou, that hast not tride, 895 What hell it is, in suing long to bide : To loose...morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow ; 900 To have thy Princes grace, yet want her Peeres ; To have thy asking, yet waite manie yeeres ;... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Authors, English - 1825 - 328 pages
...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,...put back to morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers," &c. When I was not in odious attendance... | |
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