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" 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... "
Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As ... - Page 1402
by David Josiah Brewer - 1902
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 pages
...pension ; but the poet's querulous verse must not be forgotten — those which begin thus — " Fall little knowest thou, that hast not try'd " What Hell...to run, " To speed, to give, to want, to be undone !" Savage, in the pressing hour of distress, sold that eccentric poem, The Wanderer, which had occupied...
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Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of ..., Volume 1

John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...experienced the justness of the sentiment, which represents expecting nothing as one of the Beatitudes. Full little knowest thou, that hast not try'd, 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 be...
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The works of Richard Hurd, Volume 3

Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 418 pages
...rapture, repeated the following lines of SPENSER : " 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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Moral and political dialogues

Richard Hurd - 1811 - 406 pages
...rapture, repeated the following lines of SPENSER : " 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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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - 1814 - 662 pages
...has with somuchenergy described in the well-known lines of his " Mother Hubbard's Tale," beginning Full little knowest thou, that hast not try'd What hell it is in suing long to byde, &c. He was at length, however, rewarded for his patience by a grant from the crown, in 1586,...
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The American Law Journal, Volume 5

John Elihu Hall - 1814 - 592 pages
...member of the national institute — but none of them contains • Ah! little knowest thou, who has* not try'd, What hell it is, in suing long to bide, To lose good days that might be better (pent, To pus long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...court-favours, in the following beautiful lines : ' 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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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...court-favours, in the follow-- ing beautiful lines : ' 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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Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, Volume 2

Lucy Aikin - 1818 - 544 pages
...and the sufferings of her unfortunate courtiers. M Ftill little knowest thou that hast not tried i 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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The Pocket magazine of classic and polite literature. [Continued as] The ...

1828 - 658 pages
...described in the well known linen of hit ' Mother Hubhard's Tale,' beginning, Full little knowest thon, that hast not try'd What hell it is in suing long to byde, &c. He was at length , however, rewarded for his patience, and through the good offices of his...
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