 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...  Tragedies. Poems - Page 206by William Shakespeare - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1825 - 434 pages
...bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent j To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ,• To...asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares — To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs. To fawn, to crouch, to wait,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 398 pages
...ten lines without yawning! " 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...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,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 392 pages
...ten lines without yawning ! " 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...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To cat thy heart through comfortless despairs, To fawn,... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Authors, English - 1825 - 328 pages
...to consume in litigation, in the most provoking of all attendances. " Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide...waste long nights in pensive discontent ; 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... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 336 pages
...the misery of dependence on courtfavour is painted in fine colours : " Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to...on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy princess' grace, yet want her peers' j To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1826 - 542 pages
...lines of energetic warning to the inexperienced in the ways of courts : " Full little knowest them that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide...to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; 128 ' To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1826 - 842 pages
...turn to receive the light of • Full little knowest thou that hast not ti-y'd, Wliat Hell it is ill suing long to bide, To lose good days, that might...speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on Hop?, to pir.c v.-ith Fear and Sorrow; To have thy Prince's til-асе, yet want/i/s Peers; To have... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...had-ywist, That few hath found, and many one hath mist; Full little knowest thou that hast not tride, What hell it is, in suing long to bide; To lose good...asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 420 pages
...many a one hath miss'd ! Full little knowest tbou, that hast not tried, What hell it is, in sueing long to bide : To lose good days that might be better...asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares — To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs. To fawn, to crouch, to wait,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...What hell it is, in suing long to bide; To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste lone nights in pensive discontent. To speed to-day, to...asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait,... | |
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