 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 British Poets: Including Translations ... - Pagina xiiidoor British poets - 1822Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pagina’s
...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 put back to morrow, To feed on hope,... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 406 pagina’s
...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 days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent : To speed to-day, to... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 418 pagina’s
...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 days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent : To speed to-day, to... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - 1814 - 592 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pagina’s
...court-favours, in the following beautiful lines : ' 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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pagina’s
...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 days that might be better spent, ' To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1818 - 544 pagina’s
...and the sufferings of her unfortunate courtiers. M Ftill little knowest thou that hast not tried i 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... | |
 | 1825 - 364 pagina’s
...pregnant brevity of 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 day, to... | |
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