 | 1833 - 508 pages
...life in misery. Though he is said to have had a pension, his querulous verses will not be forgotten. Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To apecd, to give, to want, to be undone. Le Sage resided... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 402 pages
...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 pages
...miseries of a suitor for court favour, have been always understood to 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 be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive... | |
 | Alexander Alexander - Fort Nashwaak (N.B.) - 1836 - 294 pages
...my intentions, I reply in those lines of Mother Hubbard's Tale, which pithily describe my feelings : Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What...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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...for court favour. One remarkable passage of this description is in his ' Mother Hubbard's Tale :' — Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What...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 ; II. 2... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...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,—...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 eat their... | |
 | Alexander Alexander - Fort Nashwaak (N.B.) - 1836 - 296 pages
...my intentions, I 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 pages
...a suitor for court favour, have been always understood to refer to his own disappointment: — • Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried. What...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' ; To have... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837 - 534 pages
...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,...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' ; To have... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1837 - 326 pages
...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...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... | |
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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... 
