 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
 | Louisa Sidney Stanhope - 1835 - Počet stránok 276
...Alas ! the epidemic lies beyond the skill of the physician : to attempt to stay the poison, is but " dropping buckets into empty wells, and growing old in drawing nothing up." Man may satirize, and woman also ; and the coteries of the tea-table may lash — and the pen of the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - Počet stránok 406
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - Počet stránok 206
...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! 'Twero well, says one, sage, erudite, profound Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - Počet stránok 534
...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... | |
 | Henry Blunt - 1837 - Počet stránok 368
...of ordinances, and thus are wearing life away, as the Christian poet has well expressed it — " By dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." We have, therefore, still to discover the class to whom our Lord alludes in the invitation before us... | |
 | Joseph Jowett - 1838 - Počet stránok 364
...this is the whole history of a large proportion of mankind ; in the caustic language of the Poet — dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. " What shall we eat? what shall we drink? wherewithal shall we be clothed?" is the anxious cry of one.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - Počet stránok 554
...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... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - Počet stránok 386
...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 !" The exercise of plain common sense (which folks that affect " science" are so apt to despise) •would... | |
 | William Gresley - 1840 - Počet stránok 414
...store of theological knowledge, for unless your head is well stored, your efforts will be only like " Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." Lastly, often read your ordination vows, and the pious and devoted ministers — no matter of what... | |
 | 1855 - Počet stránok 676
...world in which God has placed them ! How many there are among at, whose whole life is spent '•In dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." "What shall I dot" Ah! that qnerulous tone does not indicate that the dream is yet shaken 08 ! Do?... | |
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