 Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...  Poems - Strana 101autor/autoři: William Cowper - 1788Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 str.
...is plausibly amused, Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arched, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impending... | |
 | 1850 - 790 str.
...accused of finding delight — speculations, the investigation of which is likened by Cowper to the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. With all our respect for antiquaries and their studies, we must admit that there are amongst them men... | |
 | 1851 - 802 str.
...own part, assuredly I take no pride in it ; it is tío fruit of time mispent, spent in — " the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." For these reasons I want to get a bill of particular?, to the end, that we may show that we have fully... | |
 | 1851 - 566 str.
...in a quotation from Cowper. " Yes," said he, " since then, in the language of the poet, I have been, Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." By this time it had become late. I wished to leave him, and was endeavouring to devise some plan by... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 str.
...Cowper, — " Defend me, therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries ao airy, — from the toil i Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! " The preceptive portion of the Treatise presents no particular claim to originality ; the object... | |
 | International society for the evangelization of the Jews - 1852 - 1178 str.
...world—which has ever been, and must ever be, a vain as well as wearisome search—the labour '• Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." You have happily forsaken the broken cisterns which can hold no water, and have betaken yourself to... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 str.
...of Cowper, — " Defend me, therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, — from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! " CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY TREATISE. pr, 1. ORATORT, 15 Eloquence, 15 Rhetorie, 15 Oratory among the... | |
 | 1852 - 652 str.
...well-known lines : 'DtpiKB me, therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries eo airy ; from the toll Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old In drawing nothing upl' Among the original translations in the book is the following, versified from a prose fable, but... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 522 str.
...is plaufibly amufed. Defend me therefore, common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing...well, could you permit the world to live As the world pleafcs : what's the world to you ? Much. I was born of woman, and drew milk As fweet as charity from... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 str.
...of labor and must have the first solution. The labor unions, missing this truth are simply " . . . . dropping buckets into empty wells And growing old in drawing nothing up." THE FOLLY ILLUSTRATED. There is a parable of a man who owned a fine herd of cattle and lived in a region... | |
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