 | William Cowper - 1810 - Počet stránok 494
...Tlfl. 1UQ9E "JW ?ji*tt^ m»f .^fal -fig 3ML I iv and a» iu&e — I e in pity, V 1\\& "tiruT^tii iitl Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up! 190 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - Počet stránok 228
...Whife 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... | |
 | 1812 - Počet stránok 666
...etimu-, lants.' p, §02. This solemn kind of trifling, Cowper has happily ridiculed^ \>y comparing it to dropping buckets into empty wells And growing old in drawing nothing up.' ^rt. XV. The Advantages of early Piety unfolded and displayed, in a SßT ries of plain Discourses,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - Počet stránok 240
...Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping huckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! "Twere well, says one sage erndite, profound, Terrihly arched and aquiline his nose, And overhuilt with most impending... | |
 | Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1820 - Počet stránok 312
...usually blinding and bewildering its luckless possessor ; engaging him in the profitably employment of ' dropping buckets into empty wells* and growing old in drawing nothing up.' " " It must be confessed," said Mr. Spenser, " that the calculations of the sanguine are sometimes... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - Počet stránok 556
...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 arched, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impending... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - Počet stránok 278
...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...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... | |
 | Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1821 - Počet stránok 304
...usually blinding and bewildering its luckless possessor; engaging him in the profitable employment of ' dropping buckets into empty wells, and growing old in drawing nothing up.' " " It must be confessed," said Mr. Spenser, " that the calculations of the sanguine are sometimes... | |
 | Samuel Charles Wilks - 1821 - Počet stránok 620
...will be intrinsically equal to the standard discourses of our best writers, and much less to recommend dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ; but, on the contrary, to point out the necessity of the union of " study, meditation, and prayer,"... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - Počet stránok 562
...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... | |
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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... 
