...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...

...maxim of yvM otmrrov, in teaching the mind to look for truth solely within itself, it was simply " Dropping buckets into empty wells and growing old in drawing nothing up." To correct this vicious tendency in the old philosophy of the schools, Bacon proposed to substitute...

...men and women, if there are such here, searching, ever searching, for proof of the Christian faith, " dropping buckets into empty wells, and growing old in drawing nothing up " ; still searching, searching and saying, " O, that we knew where we might find it ; " come, search...

...of thirteen years. It is clear that in those days the nationality of which we write were not found "Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." The political honor put on Rev. Samuel Jones. D. D., is evidence sufficient of this. When chosen to...

...his having burned a barn. having been known 'to steal horses was \ evidence 'of 6. I dread the toil of dropping buckets into empty wells, and growing old in drawing nothing up. I dread toil dropping buckets 7. Ready to depart, we were about to bid our friends farewell. 1 to We...

...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 arched and aquiline his nose, And...

...profane, let me not be thought to arraign the wisdom of my superiors. —Oxford in the Vacation. The toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells And growing old in drawing nothing up. —The Task, iii. The men of our time are not to be converted or perverted by quartos. XV. THE next...

...incurs no blame." 6. " 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." " O yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill ; That nothing walks with aimless...

...Line 41. Great contest follows, and much learned dust. Line 101. From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.1 Line iss. 1 See Dryden, page 277. 2 No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. — Pun. SYHUS:...

...for the things that endure; we spend our strength and money for that which does not satisfy; we are "Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." We encumber ourselves on the journey of life with much unnecessary impedimenta, like the White Knight...