 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
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1847 - 636 pages
..." Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in sueing long to bide : To loose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long...yet want her peers ; To have thy asking, yet wait manie years. To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs,... | |
 | William Charles Townsend - Judges - 1846 - 564 pages
...proving the description of Spenser to be no exaggeration : — " Full little knowest thou that has not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ;...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To fret the soul with crosses and with cares, To eat the heart thro' comfortless despairs." Six cases... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1858 - 480 pages
...„Mother Hubbard's Tale": Füll little knowest thou th.it hast not try'd, AVli.it hell it is, in miscry long to bide, To lose good days, that might be better...and Sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peer's; To liavc thy asking, yet wait niaiiy years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...printed till 1581, »eem to belong to this period of his life : — Full little knowest thou that hi-t gG6 y g _ ?u|tL~ n 6^ L c } iM7 q'v>/' C 䬥8k... M:& -m[*+ k ? + 5 1) C ,I湰n R \ -N+Ov=9 crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs ; To fawn, to crouch, to wait,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 pages
...vented his vexation and disappointment in those oft-quoted lines : — " Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to...with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, )et want her peer's ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 262 pages
...vented his vexation and disappointment in those oft-quoted lines : — " Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to...with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, jet want her peer's; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Authors - 1847 - 368 pages
...dignity is not an accident, but a quality. CHAPTER II. FRIEZ POUR LUI. Full little knowest thou that hast 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 through comfortless despairs; To fawn,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...(See RURAL SCENES.) COURAGE.— (See BRAVERY.) COURTIER — PARASITE. Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide...feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; — To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone ; — Unhappy wight,... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...was painted. " Full little knowest thou that hast not trytl, What hell it is in suing long to byde; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To...and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want his peers'; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with earea... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put bju'k to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and...have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy aoul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart through comfortless despaire; To fawn, to crouch,... | |
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