| Isaac Disraeli - Anecdotes - 1807 - 538 pages
...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 it is, in suing long to bide." To lose good days — to waste long nights — and as he feelingly exclaims, " To fawn, to crouch, to... | |
| John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...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... | |
| John Aikin - Biography - 1814 - 662 pages
...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 - Law - 1814 - 592 pages
...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,... | |
| 1828 - 658 pages
...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... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1823 - 574 pages
...show that Spenser had a small pension ; but the poet's querulous verses must not be forgotten — " Full little knowest thou, that hast not try'd " What Hell it is, in suing long to bide." To lose good days — to waste long nights — and as he feelingly exclaims, " To fawn, to crouch, to... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 342 pages
...had a small pension ; but the poet's querulous verses must not be forgotten— " Full little kuowest thou, that hast not try'd " What Hell it is, in suing long to bide." To lose good days—to waste long nights—and as he feelingly exclaims, " To fawn, to crouch, to wait,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 328 pages
...small pension ; but the poet's querulous verses must not be forgotten — " Full little knowest them, that hast not try'd " What Hell it is, in suing long to bide." To lose good days — to waste long nights — and as he feelingly exclaims, " To fawn, to crouch, to... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 334 pages
...show that Spenser had a small pension ; but the poet's querulous verses must not be forgotten— " Full little knowest thou, that hast not try'd " What Hell it is, in suii;g long to bide." To lose good days—to waste long nights—and as he feelingly exclaims, " To... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Culture in literature - 1824 - 538 pages
...show that Spenser had a small pension; but the poet's querulous verses must not be forgotten — " Full little knowest thou, that hast not try'd " What Hell it is, in suing long to bide." To lose good days — to waste long nights — and as he feelingly exclaims, " To fawn, to crouch, to... | |
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