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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... "
The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful ... - Page 209
by William Oldys - 1740
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 3

Richard Ryan - 1826 - 332 pages
...to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy princess' grace, yet want her peers' ) To have thy asking, yet wait many years 5 To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart thro' comfortless despairs ; To fawn,...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...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 and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers; To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To...
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Waverley Novels, Volume 26

Walter Scott - 1819 - 420 pages
...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 and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her Peers' ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years;...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste lone nights in pensive discontent. To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers; To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To...
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Life and Correspondence of John Paul Jones: Including His Narrative of the ...

John Paul Jones - 1830 - 572 pages
...To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To ipeed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers' ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares,...
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Life and Correspondence of John Paul Jones: Including His Narrative of the ...

John Paul Jones - 1830 - 578 pages
...days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to in- put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peen'; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares,...
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The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 448 pages
...lose good dayes, 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 feare and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peeres ; To have thy asking, yet waite...
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The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 438 pages
...lose good dayes, 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 feare and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peeres ; To have thy asking, yet waite...
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Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First, Volume 1

Lucy Aikin - 1833 - 574 pages
...what occasioned the desponding Spenser to include in his list of the miseries of a court-suitor, " To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers'; To have thy asking, yet wait many years." Wentworth had no sooner taken a deliberate survey of the state of his island, than he formed a decided...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - 1833 - 750 pages
...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 care and sorrow ; To live in miVry, yet have many fears ; To lose thy seeking, yet seek many years;...
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