 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 today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear...  Curiosities of Literature - Page 51by Isaac Disraeli - 1807Full view - About this book
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...experienced the justness of the sentiment, which represents expecting nothing as one of the Beatitudes. Full little knowest thou, that hast not try'd, What hell it is in suing long to bide; To lose good dayes that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to day, to be... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 406 pages
...rapture, repeated the following lines of SPENSER : " 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... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 418 pages
...rapture, repeated the following lines of SPENSER : " 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... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1814 - 662 pages
...with somuchenergy described in the well-known lines of his " Mother Hubbard's Tale," beginning Full little knowest thou, that hast not try'd What hell it is in suing long to byde, &c. He was at length, however, rewarded for his patience by a grant from the crown, in 1586,... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - Law - 1814 - 592 pages
...member of the national institute — but none of them contains • Ah! little knowest thou, who has* not try'd, What hell it is, in suing long to bide, To lose good days that might be better (pent, To pus long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...court-favours, in the following beautiful lines : ' 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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...court-favours, in the follow-- ing beautiful lines : ' 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... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 544 pages
...and the sufferings of her unfortunate courtiers. M Ftill little knowest thou that hast not tried i 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... | |
 | 1828 - 658 pages
...described in the well known linen of hit ' Mother Hubhard's Tale,' beginning, Full little knowest thon, that hast not try'd What hell it is in suing long to byde, &c. He was at length , however, rewarded for his patience, and through the good offices of his... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1820 - 336 pages
...levelled. . •. . J .. • ;. .,.; .; . . • , ! Full little T. nownsi thou, that hast not tried,- •, What hell it is in suing long to bide; To lose good days, ihat might be better Spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to day, to be put... | |
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