 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
 | Henry Wikoff - English literature - 1855 - 488 pages
...lamentation. I sought relief in the beautiful lines of Spenser — " Full little knowest thou who has not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ;...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart in comfortless despairs, To fawn, to crouch,... | |
 | John Paul Jones - Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792 - 1855 - 560 pages
...was so dilatory ; vet much and many of them, the sensitive part of his nature made him undergo : " To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste...have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers' ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart with comfortless despairs." " To his Excellency... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 510 pages
...To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To spend today, to be put back tomorrow ; To feed on hope,...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,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Heaven - 1895 - 870 pages
...tried, What Hell it is, in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent ; I'o waste long nights, in pensive discontent ; To speed...sorrow : To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her Peer's, To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - English literature - 1896 - 232 pages
...in high places, is exposed: 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...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,... | |
 | Literature - 1896 - 928 pages
...thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide: Spenser, and England as he Viewed it. To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste...asking yet wait many years, To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart through comfortless dispairs, To fawn, to crouch, to wait,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1896 - 312 pages
...sue for had ywist,1 That few have found, and many one hath missed ! Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide...on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Princes' grace, yet want her Peers'; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1896 - 316 pages
...sue for had ywist,1 That few have found, and many one hath missed ! Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide...on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Princes' grace, yet want her Peers'; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with... | |
 | H. G. Somerville - Poor - 1896 - 240 pages
...try'd What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days that might be better spent, To wast long nights -in pensive discontent: To speed to-day,...thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers, To have thy aaking, yet wait many years : To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart with comfortless... | |
 | Charles William Heckethorn - Secret societies - 1897 - 392 pages
...discovered. The twodogs 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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