 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
 | Woman - Women - 1840 - 806 pages
...gaining a step appears; and when gained, no dancer on the slack-rope is so insecure. Full little knowcst thou, that hast not tride, What hell it is, in suing...wast long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow ; * ' * • * To fret... | |
 | Women - 1840 - 382 pages
...gaining a step appears; and when gained, no dancer on the slack-rope is so insecure. Full little knowest thou, that hast not tride, What hell it is, in suing long to bide : To loose good dayes, that might he better spent ; To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow... | |
 | Frederick Guest Tomlins - English drama - 1841 - 66 pages
...Present State of Dramatic Art and Literature," 1839, 8vo., price 1«. Mitchell. " 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,... | |
 | The Dublin University Magazine.VOL.XXII July to December,1843 - 1843 - 770 pages
...to court, to sue for had y wist, That few have found, and mannie 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 waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 598 pages
...servant to brood in silence over his ruined hopes. CHAPTER XXII. " Full hide knowest thou that has not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days that might be hetter spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent." SPENSER. The... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...courtier was doubtful, if we may believe his own experience thus recorded : — " Full little knowest thou, -that hast not tride, What hell it is, in suing...wast long nights 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 princes... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 pages
...And made him mine host of his own New Inn. Suckling, ji Sessions of the Poets, Pull little knowest thou that hast not tride, What hell it is, in suing...To loose good dayes that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pcnsiue discontent. Spenser. Mother Htibbcrd's Tale. For e'en with goodness men... | |
 | John Henry Mancur - France - 1845 - 304 pages
...his servant,, to brood in silence over his ruined hopes. CHAPTER xxif. Full little knowcst thou thot 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. THE Coadjutor's... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd - 1845 - 654 pages
...Court, to sue for had-ywitt, That few have found, and manle one hath mist ! Full little knowest tliou, |L !۶4 ] ' tVv `1 Kͱ~/D l ` V6 ~ r ? lose good dayes, that might be better spent : To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 560 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 fret the soul with crosses and with care, — To eat the heart with comfortless... | |
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