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
| 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... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - Počet stránok 278
...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1821 - Počet stránok 556
...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 ! 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arched, 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
...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - Počet stránok 450
...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 ! " "Twere well," says one sage erudite profound, Terribly arch'd, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impending... | |
| John Ivatt Briscoe - 1824 - Počet stránok 186
...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... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - Počet stránok 510
...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 ! Twerc well, says one sage erudite, profund, Terribly arch'd, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
| Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - Počet stránok 476
...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... | |
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