...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 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 erdudite, 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 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...

...an incurious eye, and smile when I see gray-beards like myself spend days and months and years ' In dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. 1 Enough, Mr. Editor, for you : we may hereafter become more acquainted. If so, well. If not, perhaps...

...equal to his gains, and his last state be no better than his first. The whole process must amount to " Dropping buckets into empty wells, and growing old in drawing nothing up." Next, as to the case of some commodity which can be procured cheaper from abroad, but which it is proposed,...

...cisterns, " cisterns that can hold no water," f 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...

...emanating from them ? When the times are hissing and boiling like a Geyser, where are they ? " — Dropping buckets into empty wells And growing old in drawing nothing up." Our baker was fortunate enough in his boyhood to be taught the regular school-hopscotch, for, passing...

...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...

...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 Nor rainly buys what Gildon sells,...

...bottom of this mysterious business were similar in result to that of which the poet Cowper speaks, of— "—— dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." I continued, nevertheless, to love and reverence God as my Father, and to serve him according to my...