 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 - 1856 - 464 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 ! 190 JUSTIFICATION OF THE PRECEDING CKNSDKES. 'Twere well, says one, sage, erudite, profound, Terribly... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 str.
...is plausibly amused. Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil am Jenks ! SYMPATHY WITH ERRINO HUMANITY. Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arched, and... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - 360 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." We derive the materials for this continued investigation from Cowper himself. Up to the period of his... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 str.
...survived the fall ! Great contest follows, and much learned dust. From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. How various his employments whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly in return Esteems that busy... | |
 | HODGES - 1856 - 780 str.
...at this season of the year, as " an animal found on the sea-shore between high and low water marks." Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up, we may say that till the well of creation be emptied, there is no danger of our returning from our... | |
 | John Baillie - 1857 - 30 str.
...LONDON. MDCCCLVII. I " 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 ! " CowPEK. AN EARNEST MINISTRY, " THEN said the Interpreter, Come in ; I will show thee that which... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 str.
...fields, the better ! "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.'' 1 We have seen that systems of morals have been propounded in every age ; by the wise Chinese, and... | |
 | 1857 - 850 str.
...philosophical theorists: " 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." Mr. Fortune and some English friends, who went up the country by canal from Ningpo, were accustomed... | |
 | 1857 - 502 str.
...much akin to the labours of the schoolmen of the middle ages described so faithfully as employed in "Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up," these men brought us hack to the wholesome starting point of, — " Know your customer first, and tlien... | |
 | John Ross MacDuff - 1858 - 164 str.
...— the folly of leaving Him who is the source of all felicity, and of engaging in the useless toil " Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." In the next place, it is a sin committed without any provocation whatever, there being nothing in the... | |
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