| William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...Tlfl. 1UQ9E "JW ?ji*tt^ m»f .^fal -fig 3ML I iv and a» iu&e — I e in pity, V 1\\& "tiruT^tii iitl 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... | |
| William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...Whife thoughtful man is plausibly amus'd. Defend me, therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty...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... | |
| 1812 - 666 pages
...etimu-, lants.' p, §02. This solemn kind of trifling, Cowper has happily ridiculed^ \>y comparing it to dropping buckets into empty wells And growing old in drawing nothing up.' ^rt. XV. The Advantages of early Piety unfolded and displayed, in a SßT ries of plain Discourses,... | |
| William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping huckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! "Twere well, says one sage erndite, profound, Terrihly arched and aquiline his nose, And overhuilt with most impending... | |
| Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1820 - 312 pages
...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 - 278 pages
...While thoughtful man is plausibly amus'd. Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty...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 - 556 pages
...While thoughtful man is plausibly amused. Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty...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 - 304 pages
...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 - 620 pages
...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 - 562 pages
...While thoughtful man is plausibly amus'd. Defend me therefore common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty...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... | |
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