 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
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 566 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... | |
 | David Trevena Coulton - 1853 - 334 pages
...so long, or perhaps what we hear to-morrow may change his mind." CHAPTER VI. " 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 fret... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1855 - 382 pages
...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 feare and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peeres ; To have thy asking, yet waite manie years ; To fret thy soul... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Passion for his Astrophell. The lineaments of gospel-books. Mother Hubberd's Tale. Full little knovvest 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 thy soule... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 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 long to hide : • To loose good dayes that might he hetter spent, To wast long nights in pensive discontent... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1857 - 600 pages
...court, to sue, for had-ywist, That few lialh found, and many one h»tb mist ! Full little knovrest thou, that hast not tride, What hell it is, in suing long to bide : To loose Lrnn.i dayes, that might be better spent; To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day,... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - Queens - 1858 - 552 pages
...tried, What hell it is in suing long to hide ; To lose good days, that might he hetter 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...may believe his own experience, thus recorded: — " Full little knowest thou, that hast not tridc, What hell it is, in suing long to bide : To loose...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... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1860 - 416 pages
...had-ywist, That few have found, and manie one hath mist ! Full little knowest thou that hast not tride, 895 What hell it is in suing long to bide : To loose good...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 ;... | |
 | 1875 - 734 pages
...transfer," and may well muse over Spenser's lines on the disappointed courtier : — " Full 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 pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow. To feed on hope,... | |
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