 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 pagine
...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 wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up 1 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 458 pagine
...conscience, but it sleeps While thoughtful man is plausibly amused. From reveries so airy, from the toil iss 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 - 1855 - 582 pagine
...While thoughtful man is plausibly amused. Defend me therefore, common sense, say 1, 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 798 pagine
...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 arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impending... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 298 pagine
...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 arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impending... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1855 - 846 pagine
...incapacity ? If they are to be taken at their word, they are at the best engaged in nothing better than the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." The course of the writers here alluded to, well exemplifies the evils arising from the personification... | |
 | George Smith - 1855 - 604 pagine
...Sisyphus or Tantalus, he is ever labouring to accomplish an impossibility, and spends his time " In dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." Yes; for any error of this kind, the individual himself, and, next to him, his brethren, have to pay... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pagine
...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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - 430 pagine
...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 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pagine
...Paradise that hast 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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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... 
