 | Forbes Winslow - 1839 - 398 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...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow : To fret the soul with crosses and with cares, To eat the bread thro' comfortless despairs." Having thus... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1839 - 266 pages
...Full little know'st thou, that hast not tried, How strange it is in " steam-boat" long to bide,— To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs, To speed to-day—to be put back to-morrow— To feed on hope—to pine with fear and sorrow. SPENSER.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1839 - 746 pages
...sighing long to bide, To pass long days that might be better [spent, To waste long nights in hopeless discontent; To speed to-day to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine in fear and [sorrow ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with [cares, To eat thy heart with comfortlessdespairs;... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1925 - 348 pages
...To lose good days that might be better spent: To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To spend 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; To fret thy soul w1th... | |
 | 1868 - 798 pages
...most diffuse of poets became the most concentrated when wrath brooded over the memory of wrong. *' To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares : To eat thy heart throuch comfortless despairs ; To fawn, to crouch, to wnit, to riile, to run, To spend, to give, to... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 1154 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...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,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 424 pages
...better spent ; To matte long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrom ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To...despairs. To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone. MOTHER HIJBBERD'S TALE. ON the morning of the day on... | |
 | Charles William Heckethorn - 2005 - 377 pages
...the honest Alchymists 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 fret their souls with crosses and with cares, To eat their hearts through comfortless despairs. Unhappy... | |
 | María Edgeworth - 2006 - 442 pages
...to day, to be put back to morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To fret thy sould with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart through...despairs, To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone." "Very strong, indeed/' said I, with a competent air,... | |
 | María Edgeworth - 2006 - 426 pages
...to day, to be put back to morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To fret thy sould with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart through...despairs, To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be 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... 
