 | Charles Mackay - England, Southern - 1840 - 426 pages
...! Too well he knew, as Spenser so feelingly sings in his Mother Hubbard's Tale, " What hell it was in suing, long to bide, To lose good days, that might...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 cares ; To eat the heart... | |
 | Woman - Women - 1840 - 806 pages
...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 feare and sorrow ; * ' * • * To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares;... | |
 | Frederick Guest Tomlins - English drama - 1841 - 66 pages
...Art and Literature," 1839, 8vo., price 1«. Mitchell. " Full little knowest thou that hast not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good...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 thy heart... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...Tale :" — " Full little knowest thou that hast not try'd, What hell it is in suing long to byde ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To...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 his peers' ; To have the... | |
 | 1841 - 502 pages
...old age seizes hold of him, and death pushes him into the grave. Spenser has written his epitaph. " To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To spend to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret his... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - England - 1841 - 300 pages
...disappointed ambition may every word of it be applied to a heart that places its love beyond its sphere— " To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent; t To speed to-day, to be put back tc-morrow, To feed on hope, to p:ne in fear and sorrow, To fret thy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 770 pages
...hath miss'd! Full little knowcst tliou, that hast not tried, What bell it is, in sucing long to lüde: 1 I3H _ H B d6n id ˌTt 1 on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her Peers'; To have thy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 757 pages
...and 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...nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to he put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy Prince's grace, yet... | |
 | English fiction - 1842 - 418 pages
...it is, in suing lung, u> bide; To lose good days, that might be boner spent ; To waste tong nichts 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 thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart... | |
 | 1843 - 862 pages
...court to sue for had y wist That few have found, and many more have miss'd ; Full little knowest tliou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long...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 peers. To have thy... | |
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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... 
