 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 572 pages
...vet much and many of them, the sensitive part of his nature made him undergo : " To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To ipeed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 846 pages
...tittle knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is. In «lemg long to bide : To lose good days - O { < o ̽ v ڠFZu SS W <, ëR T ? - mX j fI E} «peed to-day, to bft put buck to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and Borrow ; To have... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...description is in his ' Mother Hubbard's Tale :' — 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 —... | |
 | Alexander Alexander - Fort Nashwaak (N.B.) - 1836 - 296 pages
...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... | |
 | J. H. Hippisley - English literature - 1837 - 378 pages
...,f Chap. viii. evidently to allude to his own ill-fortune, in the following well-known lines : — Full little knowest thou that hast not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide. To lose good days in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...understood to refer to his own disappointment: — • 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... | |
 | 1815 - 560 pages
...an example of terseness, which Pope has never excelled. Full liftle knowest thou that hast not spied 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... | |
 | John Sheppard - Prayer - 1838 - 368 pages
...through successive years, as another of their number has mournfully recorded, " To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ?" And, shall a suitor to the court of heaven, believing the incomparable grandeur, and sure attainableness... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1838 - 1198 pages
...always understood to refer to his own disappointments. - Full little knpwesl thon, that bast not tried. What hell it is, in suing long to bide : To lose good days, tli >i might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1839 - 334 pages
...miserable man, whom wicked fate Hath brought to Court, to sue for had ywist, That few have found, and manie one hath mist ! Full little knowest thou, that hast...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... | |
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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... 
