 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 str.
...While thoughtful man is plausibly amus'd. Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries BO airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up I "T were well," says one sage erudite, profound. Terribly arch'd, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 str.
...While thoughtful man is plausibly amused, Defend me therefore, common.eense, »ay I, From reveries so irst and only Jbir. Spare not in such a cause. Spend...powers Of rant and rhapsody in virtue's praise : says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arched, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impcBding... | |
 | John Taylor - 1833 - 138 str.
...often, that we may have the opportunity, so long as prices are kept up, of re-acquiring it : still " dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." The following table shews, 1. the price to which gold would have risen, had we authorised its exchange... | |
 | 1834 - 536 str.
...responsibility of a waste of time, which is forcibly described by your excellent poet Cowper, as no better than Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. HH AMONG other instructivo lessons with which tlic book of Job abounds, we have a lively instance of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 str.
...While thoughtful man is plausibly amused. Defend me, therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty...And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, says one, sage, erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impending... | |
 | Louisa Sidney Stanhope - 1835 - 276 str.
...Alas ! the epidemic lies beyond the skill of the physician : to attempt to stay the poison, is but " dropping buckets into empty wells, and growing old in drawing nothing up." Man may satirize, and woman also ; and the coteries of the tea-table may lash — and the pen of the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 str.
...While thoughtful man is plausibly amused. Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty...And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impending... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 206 str.
...AVhile thoughtful man 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! 'Twero well, says one, sage, erudite, profound Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 str.
...While thoughtful man is plausibly amus'd. Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty...And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impending... | |
 | Henry Blunt - 1837 - 368 str.
...of ordinances, and thus are wearing life away, as the Christian poet has well expressed it — " By dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." We have, therefore, still to discover the class to whom our Lord alludes in the invitation before us... | |
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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... 
