 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...  Among My Books: Second Series - Σελίδα 145των James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 327 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1839 - 742 σελίδες
...! 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...pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-raorrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret the soul with crosses and with... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 σελίδες
...hell it is, in suin^ Iimu to biilc; To lose tood days that miglit be belter spent ; To waste loot; nights in pensive discontent. To speed to-day, to...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow : To fret the soul with crosses and with cares. To eat the bread thro' comfortless despairs.' " Havmg thus... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1839 - 746 σελίδες
...sighing long to bide, To pass long days that might be better [spent, To waste long nights in hopeless discontent; To speed to-day to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine in fear and [sorrow ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with [cares, To eat thy heart with comfortlessdespairs;... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1921 - 168 σελίδες
...of the life of a Suitor at court in Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale, l. 893 : " Full little knowest thou that hast not tried 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... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1923 - 322 σελίδες
...is in suing long to bide : 1 See my " Spenser " volume, chap. VI. and p. 407. To loose good dayes, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights...put back tomorrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with f eare and sorrow ; To have thy Princes grace, yet want her Peeres ; To have thy asking, yet wait manie... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1925 - 348 σελίδες
...powerfully delineated in colours mixed, it may be feared, with Spenser's tears: — " Full little knowest thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing...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 have thy... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 σελίδες
...those days, his pride of birth was humbled in seeking the patronage of nobles : 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 spend, to give, to want, to be undone. To the liberality... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 1154 σελίδες
...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...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs ; To fawn,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 424 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret their souls with crosses and with cares, To eat their hearts through comfortless despairs. Unhappy... | |
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