 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 420 pages
...What hell it is, in sueing long to bide : To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to...despairs. To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone. Mother HvbbercCs Tale. ON the morning of the day on... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 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,...have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers' ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart with comfortless despairs." " To his Excellency... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 564 pages
...that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be pnt back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear...have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers' ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To eat thy beart with comfortless despairs." " To his Excellency... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 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...sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peen'; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart with comfortless despairs." "... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 566 pages
...pan of his nature made him undergo : " 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, t To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers' ;... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Chemistry - 1830 - 678 pages
...might lie better uncut, To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To n]iccd to-<lay, to he put hack to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret their souls with crosses and with cares, To cat their hearts through comfortless despairs : l-uhappy... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 356 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...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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1832 - 438 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1832 - 448 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1833 - 750 pages
...hell it is, in hopeless toils to bide, — To lose good days that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to...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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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... 
