| 1847 - 662 стор.
...Tale :" — " Full little knowest thou that hast not try'd, What hell it is in suing long to byde ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To...To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, yet want his peers' ; To have the asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 1154 стор.
...Surely the only allowable attitude to insufferable dependence of this sort is pity. Full little knowcst thou, that hast not tried. What hell it is in suing...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,... | |
| Liberty Fund - 1986 - 248 стор.
...those who could not, found themselves, like the suitor in Spencer's Mother Hubberd's Tale, condemned To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone. It is indeed some measure of the strangeness, to modern ways of thinking, of medieval standards of... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 424 стор.
...years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares — To eat thy heart through comfortless 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 which George Heriot had prepared to escort the... | |
| Charles William Heckethorn - 2005 - 377 стор.
...discovered. The two, dogs were shot under the gallows. But even the honest Alchymists were doomed — " To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste...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 стор.
...ten lines without yawning! "Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What Hell it is in sueing long to bide." "To lose good days, that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensire discontent, To speed to day, to be put back to morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and... | |
| María Edgeworth - 2006 - 426 стор.
...ten lines without yawning! "Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What Hell it is in sueing long to bide." "To lose good days, that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensire discontent, To speed to day, to be put back to morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and... | |
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