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" 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 101
podľa William Cowper - 1788
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The Task, Table Talk, and Other Poems: With Critical Observations of Various ...

William Cowper - 1856 - Počet stránok 464
...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 JUSTIFICATION OF THE PRECEDING CKNSDKES. 'Twere well, says one, sage, erudite, profound, Terribly...
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The Rural Poetry of the English Language: Illustrating the Seasons and ...

Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - Počet stránok 574
...is plausibly amused. Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil am Jenks ! SYMPATHY WITH ERRINO HUMANITY. Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arched, and...
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Lectures on the Life, Genius and Insanity of Cowper

George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - Počet stránok 360
...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." We derive the materials for this continued investigation from Cowper himself. Up to the period of his...
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ...

John Bartlett - 1856 - Počet stránok 660
...survived the fall ! Great contest follows, and much learned dust. From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. How various his employments whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly in return Esteems that busy...
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THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

HODGES - 1856 - Počet stránok 780
...at this season of the year, as " an animal found on the sea-shore between high and low water marks." Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up, we may say that till the well of creation be emptied, there is no danger of our returning from our...
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An earnest ministry: or, How to win souls

John Baillie - 1857 - Počet stránok 30
...LONDON. MDCCCLVII. I " 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 ! " CowPEK. AN EARNEST MINISTRY, " THEN said the Interpreter, Come in ; I will show thee that which...
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The Beautiful in Nature, Art, and Life, Zväzok 1

Andrew James Symington - 1857 - Počet stránok 374
...fields, the better ! "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.'' 1 We have seen that systems of morals have been propounded in every age ; by the wise Chinese, and...
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Littell's Living Age, Zväzok 55

1857 - Počet stránok 850
...philosophical theorists: " 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." Mr. Fortune and some English friends, who went up the country by canal from Ningpo, were accustomed...
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The English Journal of Education, Zväzok 11

1857 - Počet stránok 502
...much akin to the labours of the schoolmen of the middle ages described so faithfully as employed in "Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up," these men brought us hack to the wholesome starting point of, — " Know your customer first, and tlien...
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The precepts of Jesus, by the author of 'The faithful witness'.

John Ross MacDuff - 1858 - Počet stránok 164
...— the folly of leaving Him who is the source of all felicity, and of engaging in the useless toil " Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." In the next place, it is a sin committed without any provocation whatever, there being nothing in the...
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