 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
 | Books - 1825 - 368 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} To speed to... | |
 | Books - 1825 - 368 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} To speed to... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Library catalogs - 1826 - 672 pages
...Mother Hubberd't Tale,' are supposed to have given great disgust to Lord Burghley. " Full little knowest thou that hast not tride What Hell it is, in suing...in pensive discontent; To speed to Day, to be put Imrk Tomorrow ; To feed on Hope, to pine with Feare and Sorrow ; To have thy Prince's Grace, yet want... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 906 pages
...disgust to Lord Burghley. " Full little knowest thou that hast not trirte What Hell it is, in sum? lung to bide ; To loose good Dayes, that might be better spent ; To wast long Ni,'hts in pensive discontent; To speed to Day, to bo put back Tomorrow ; To feed on Hope, to pine... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...brought to court, to sue for had-ywist, That few hath found, and many one hath mist; 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. To speed to-day,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...brought to court, tn sue for had-ywist, That few hath found, and many one hath mist; 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 lone nights in pensive discontent. To speed to-day,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1832 - 438 pages
...and sorrow, in Spenser's famous description of the miseries of a court-suitor ? " 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 waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1832 - 448 pages
...and sorrow, in Spenser's famous description of the miseries of a court-suitor ? " 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 waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed... | |
 | J. H. Hippisley - English literature - 1837 - 378 pages
...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,... | |
 | J. H. Hippisley - English literature - 1837 - 370 pages
...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 many yeeres ; To eate thy heart... | |
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