| Hinton Castle Smith - 1844 - Počet stránok 256
...cisterns, " cisterns that can hold no water," t and you will still continue to thirst and draw, — " dropping buckets into empty wells, " And growing old in drawing nothing up ; " until the Spirit give you new tastes, and new desires, — a divine and spiritual craving, which... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - Počet stránok 840
...meddle with buck-washing. Id. Ib. fol. 50. 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! Cowper. The Task, book iii. Nothing is stol'n : my muse, though mean Draws from the spring she finds... | |
| William Cowper - 1846 - Počet stránok 310
...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 wells, And growing old in drawmg nothing up ! 'Twerc well, says one, sage, erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his... | |
| William Cowper - 1847 - 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 arch'd, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impending... | |
| 1878 - Počet stránok 496
...all its flavour." " Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the fall." " Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." " The town has tinged the country." " Life spent in indolence and therefore sad." " But war's a game,... | |
| Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1847 - Počet stránok 334
...preach, without having his mind stored with theological knowledge, are not unjustly characterized as, 44 Dropping buckets into empty wells ; And growing old in drawing nothing up." Where there is eloquence at all, there must be the eloquence of thought. A man may bluster, and foam,... | |
| William Cowper - 1849 - Počet stránok 740
...While thoughtful man is plausibly amused. 186 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 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
| William Cowper - 1850 - Počet stránok 516
...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... | |
| 1850 - Počet stránok 790
...are 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 - Počet stránok 796
...For my own part, assuredly I take no pride in it; it is the fruit of time mispeut, 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 particulars, to the end, that we may show that we have fully... | |
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