 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
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pagina’s
...Tale, though not printed till 1581, seem to belong to this period of his Ufe : — Full little knowest _ . bock to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want... | |
 | Lemuel Sawyer - 1844 - 160 pagina’s
...sunshine, dreading the clouded brow. < Ah ! little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is iii suing long to bide, To lose good days that might be...spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent,' &c., &c. " Spencer has well described the secrets of this life, and technically it is called ploughing... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 1154 pagina’s
...Surely the only allowable attitude to insufferable dependence of this sort is pity. Full little knowcst 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 eat... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 424 pagina’s
...many a one hath miss'd ! Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is, in sueing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To matte long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrom ; To feed on hope,... | |
 | Charles William Heckethorn - 2005 - 377 pagina’s
...discovered. The two, dogs were shot under the gallows. But even the honest Alchymists were doomed — " To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste...discontent ; To speed to,day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret their souls with crosses and with cares, To... | |
 | María Edgeworth - 2006 - 426 pagina’s
...ten lines without yawning! "Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What Hell it is in sueing long to bide." "To lose good days, that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensire discontent, To speed to day, to be put back to morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and... | |
 | María Edgeworth - 2006 - 442 pagina’s
...ten lines without yawning! "Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What Hell it is in sueing long to bide." "To lose good days, that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensire discontent, To speed to day, to be put back to morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and... | |
 | Virginia M. Fellows - 2006 - 383 pagina’s
...under the name of Edmund Spenser, he had written some years earlier: Full little knowest thou that has not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide . . . To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run; To spend,... | |
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