 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 846 pages
...grace yet want her Peer** , To have thy asking, yet wail many year* ; To fret thy soul with crosses nnd of prophète and pretended soothsayers, whom he accounted Infuii regllna, ae he eipresses it In the l run, To spend, to give, to want, lo be undone. Motbtr Hvtttrft ОУ the morning of the day on which... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Biography & Autobiography - 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 402 pages
...might be better spent ; To waste good nights in pining discontent ; To write to day to have it spurn'd to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To think ; to strive to please, yet be neglected; To find the work approved, yet be rejected ; To send;... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...hell it is, ill 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...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 ; To frett thy soul... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...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 —...sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her Peer's ; II. 2 M V <> ftfirt' thy ashing, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...language of Spencer, they were doomed "To lose good days that might be better spent,— To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day; to...To feed on hope; to pine with fear and sorrow; To Tret their souls with crosses and with cares ; To eat their hearts through comfortless despairs. Unhappy... | |
 | Alexander Alexander - Fort Nashwaak (N.B.) - 1836 - 294 pages
...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...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. When, to... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1888 - 490 pages
...discontent, To speed to-day, to be put 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. 1 o fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone." " Very strong,... | |
 | Alexander Alexander - Fort Nashwaak (N.B.) - 1836 - 296 pages
...discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put 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. When, to the cause of delay in acting justly, which is truly set out in the preceding lines, I add,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - English fiction - 1836 - 482 pages
...to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, I'o eat thy heart through comfortless despairs, To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, lobe undone." " Very strong, indeed," said I, with a competent air,... | |
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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 to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with... 
