| Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 Seiten
...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... | |
| John Black - 1810 - 460 Seiten
...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... | |
| Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 418 Seiten
...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... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1811 - 406 Seiten
...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... | |
| John Aikin - 1814 - 662 Seiten
...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,... | |
| John Elihu Hall - 1814 - 592 Seiten
...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... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 Seiten
...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... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 Seiten
...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... | |
| Lucy Aikin - 1818 - 544 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1828 - 658 Seiten
...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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