 To have thy 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, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.  A Manual of English Literature - Page 261by Henry Morley - 1879 - 665 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Pettit Andrews - 1806 - 394 pages
...years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with care ; To eat thy heart thro' comfortless despair ; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run ; To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.' Jasper Jasper Heywood, DD the* son of the epiHey grammatist John,* before spoken of, died at Naples... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 pages
...want her peere's ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To frett thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs ; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to ronne ; To spend, to give, to want, to be undone. In the same satire and elsewhere, Spenser has not... | |
 | William Shenstone, Thomas Park - 1808 - 342 pages
...of learn'd Eliza's reign To swell with tears his Mulla's parent stream, And mourn aloud the pang ' to ride, to run, ' To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.' Why should I tell of Cowley's pensive Muse, Belov'd in vain? too copious is my theme! Which of your... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 442 pages
...to-morrow, " 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,...run, " To spend, to give, to want, to be undone." " Very strong, indeed," said I, with a competent air, as if used to judge of poetry. " And it comes... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...with crosses, and with cares; To eate thy heart through comfortlesse despaires ; To fawne, to crouche, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone. * Little indeed was to be expected from the execrable Philip, who is sometimes represented as a great... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...of learn'd Eliza's reign To swell with tears his Mulla's parent stream. And mourn aloud the pang " to ride, to run. To spend, to give, to want, to be undone." Why should 1 tell of Cow ley's pensive Muse Belov'd in vain ? too copious is my theme ! Which of your... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - 1814 - 592 pages
...sorrow; To fret thy soul with crosses and with care, To eat thy heart through comfortless despair; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone; Unhappy wight! such hard fate dootn'd to try; That curse God send unto mine enemy.— —SPENSER. I... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pages
...asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart thro' comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait,...to run ; To spend, to give, to want, to be undone. The experiment which Sir Philip Sidney and Gabriel Harvey patronized of introducing the Latin measures... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with care, To eat thy heart through comfortless despair;* To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want — to be undone.' demanded, " What, all this for a song ? " The Queen replied, " Then give him what is reason." Spenser,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with care, To eat thy heart through comfortless despair ;* To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want — to be undone.' demanded, " What, all this for a song ? " The Queen replied, -' Then give him what is reason." Spenser,... | |
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