 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...  Among My Books - Pagina 145door James Russell Lowell - 1870 - 686 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1834 - 402 pagina’s
...it. THE EDITOR PRO ТЕМ. " Ah ! little knowest thou that hast not tried, How sore it is uncertainty to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste good nights in pining discontent ; To write to day to have it spurn'd to-morrow ; To feed on hope ;... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pagina’s
...refer to his own disappointments. " Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is, ill suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might...discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy princess" grace, yet want her peers'... | |
 | Alexander Alexander - 1836 - 294 pagina’s
...reply in those lines of Mother Hubbard's Tale, which pithily describe my feelings : Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What Hell it is in suing...discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; • To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pagina’s
...remarkable passage of this description is in his ' Mother Hubbard's Tale :' — Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing...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 Peer's... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pagina’s
...hearers. Speaking of the alchymists, Mr. Phillips said that, in the language of Spencer, they were doomed "To lose good days that might be better spent,—...discontent; To speed to-day; to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope; to pine with fear and sorrow; To Tret their souls with crosses and with cares ; To... | |
 | Alexander Alexander - 1836 - 296 pagina’s
...reply in those lines of Mother Hubbard's Tale, which pithily describe my feelings : Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What Hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days tbat might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pagina’s
...favour, have been always understood to refer to his own disappointment: — • Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried. What hell it is, in suing...discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy princess' grace, yet want her peers'... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 pagina’s
...understood to refer to his own disappointment: — ' Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, W hat hell it is, in suing long to bide : To lose good days,...discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy princess' grace, yet want her peers'... | |
 | Frederick John Shore - 1837 - 562 pagina’s
...thing is suitor's state. Full little know'st thou, thou that hast not tried What hell it is in sueing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better...discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed in hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy judge's grace, yet want his peers' •;... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1837 - 326 pagina’s
...passage of Spencer's, — " Full little knowest thou, who hast not tried, What hell it is, in sueing long, to bide ; To lose good days, that might be better...discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow • To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ;... | |
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