...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...

...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...

...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...

...appear that it was designed ever to be the instrument in this work; church has, as it were, been " dropping buckets into empty wells, and growing old in drawing nothing up." The whole of the baptismal service for infants is founded upon the notion that baptism was designed...

...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 drawing nothing up ! And thus gives virtue Indirect applause ; But she has burnt her mask, not needed here. Where vice...

...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 drawing nothing up ! God never meant that man should scale the heav'ns By strides of human wisdom, in his works. Though...

...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 drawing nothing up ! And i How JJrst •p; ow then should I and any man that lives strangers to each other ? Pierce my...

...While thoughtful man is plausibly amused. Defend me therefore common sense, say I, From reveries so and very fair; — Her beauty made me glad. " Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may I 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arched and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt...

...what extent the salutary sentence of hard labour might be unprofitably perverted. It is in truth *, " the toil " Of dropping buckets into empty wells, " And growing old in drawing nothing up." Divested of .all prejudice on the subject, I am quite at a loss to understand on what foundation the...

...became an out-and-out angler. But it proved, in my hands, as in many others before me, something Like dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up! The only thing I ever caught* was a bramble, which appeared to have been lodged in the mud ; but I...