 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
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...impudent ; pleasure love, not vsee. Chapnn* 96 COURTIER. Pull little knowest thon 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 diseontent, To speed to-day, to be put... | |
 | Henry Wikoff - 1855 - 488 pages
...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 lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 382 pages
...description of the miseries of a court-suitor t , " Full little knowest thou, that hast not tride, 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... | |
 | William Howitt - 1856 - 596 pages
...the most lively picture of court attendance and its consequent chagrins that ever was painted. " Full little knowest thou that hast not tryd, What hell it is in suing long to byde ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...understood to refer to his own disappointment : — 1 Full little knowcst thou, that hut not triad, 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... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 pages
...such sincere divulgement of personal experience : — " 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1857 - 524 pages
...that Spenser had a small pension ; but the poet's querulous verses must not be forgotten — ' Full little knowest thou, that hast not try'd ' What Hell it is, in suing long tu bide.' To lose good days— to waste long nights — and as hn feelingly exclaims, •To lawn, to... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 420 pages
...wandering about Lincoln's Jnn Hall, and exclaiming, — " Ah ! little know'st them, who hast never tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ;— To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in i>ensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pages
...low answered to all. THE MISERY OF A COURTIER'S LIFE. 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...grave and die. MARYELL. 29. SUING FOR COURT FAVOUR. 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... | |
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