 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
 | 1847 - 526 pages
...discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To 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, born to disastrous end, That doth his life in so long tendance spend. 2. These... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To 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, born to disastrous end, That doth his life in so long tendance spend. 2. These... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1847 - 368 pages
...back 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; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to ronne, To speed, to give, to want, to be undonne. SPENSER. Oui, mon ami, le veritable et la plus digne... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - 424 pages
...; To fret the soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat the heart through comfortless despoils ; . To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone ! " Yet one cannot help thinking, after all, that it served him righ t ; for, according to his own... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 478 pages
...thy asking, yet wait many years / To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart in comfortless despairs ; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to wait — to be undone." At length, however, Spenser received (in 1580) the appointment of secretary... | |
 | Robert Milman - 1850 - 364 pages
...want his peers : 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 run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.* * Spenser, "Mother Hubbard's Tales," L. 895. CHAPTER V. COLLEGE LIFE OF TORQUATO TASSO. DURING the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To frett thy soul with crosses and with cures ; To eai thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to...to run ; To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.' SIB WALTBH SCOTT, Prose Works, vol. xrii. p. 91.] "And we cannot but revere and envy him, when giving... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...her peers' ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with caree ; bore the doors away, Christ's hands, though nail'd, wrought our salvat wuit, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to wait, to be uudone I ,;!> Strong fueling has here banished... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...yet want her peers'; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs;...crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to- give, to wait, to be undone ! Spenser was, however, during this period, occasionally employed or inferior state... | |
 | William Wilson (author of A house for Shakspere.) - 1851 - 240 pages
...want her peers' ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs;...crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to wait, to be undone! Gather therefore the rose, while yet is prime, For soon comes age, that will her... | |
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