 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
 | Thomas Wood - 1825 - Počet stránok 440
...256—258. to as little purpose as those philosophical speculatists, whom the poet describ.es as " dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." Such wa^the state of sacred literature, and the morals of the clergy were equally low and disgraceful.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - Počet stránok 242
...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, erndite, profound Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - Počet stránok 242
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - Počet stránok 264
...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 aqueline his nose, And overbuilt with most impending... | |
 | 1828 - Počet stránok 216
...was in the habit of continually passing, his answers forcibly reminded us of the unprofitable task " Of dropping buckets into empty wells, " And growing old in drawing nothing up." I will not, however, deprive him of his meed of praise : he had one redeeming quality, that counterbalanced... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - Počet stránok 328
...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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - Počet stránok 256
...is plausibly amus'd. Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries BO airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up I "T were well," says one sage erudite, profound. Terribly arch'd, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - Počet stránok 602
...is plausibly amused, Defend me therefore, common.eense, »ay I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Spare not in such a cause. Spend all the powers Of rant and rhapsody in virtue's praise : says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arched, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impcBding... | |
 | John Taylor - 1833 - Počet stránok 138
...often, that we may have the opportunity, so long as prices are kept up, of re-acquiring it : still " dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." The following table shews, 1. the price to which gold would have risen, had we authorised its exchange... | |
 | 1834 - Počet stránok 536
...responsibility of a waste of time, which is forcibly described by your excellent poet Cowper, as no better than Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. HH AMONG other instructivo lessons with which tlic book of Job abounds, we have a lively instance of... | |
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