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... Poems - Strana 101podľa William Cowper - 1788Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| William Cowper - 1803 - Počet stránok 362
...plaufibly amus'd. Defend me, therefore, common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Ctf dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old...fays on.e fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and acquiline his nofe, And over-built with molt impending brows, Twere well, could you permit the world... | |
| William Cowper - 1803 - Počet stránok 388
...is plaufibly amufed. Defend me therefore common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing...Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, Terribly arched and aquiline his nofe, And overbuilt with moft impending brows, Twere well, could you permit... | |
| William Cowper - 1805 - Počet stránok 376
...is plaufibly amufed. Defend me therefore common fenfc, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing...Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, Terribly arched, and aquiline his nofe, And overbuilt with moft impending brows, 'Twere well, could you permit... | |
| William Cowper - 1805 - Počet stránok 366
...is plaufibly amufed. Defend me therefore common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! Twere well, fays on» fage erudite, profound, Terribly arched, and aquiline his nofe, And overbuilt with moft impending... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - Počet stránok 234
...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 I 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, , Terribly arched and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - Počet stránok 212
...is plausibly amus'd. Defend me, therefore, common sensej say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And over-built with most impending... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - Počet stránok 384
...is plausibly amus'd. 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 ! V Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
| William Cowper - 1811 - Počet stránok 228
...is plausibly amus'd. 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 ! '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... | |
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