 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 - Сторінка 101автори: William Cowper - 1788Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 стор.
...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 - 806 стор.
...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 'Twere well, says one, sage, erudite, profound Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
 | 1854 - 576 стор.
...exclaim, in the " 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 ! " CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY TREATIBK. pf ORATOET, 15 Eloqnence, 16 Rhetoric, 16 Oratory tuning the Ancients,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 298 стор.
...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 - 1855 - 798 стор.
...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 - 1855 - 582 стор.
...is plausibly amused. Defend me therefore, common sense, say 1, 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... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1855 - 846 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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... | |
 | HODGES - 1856 - 780 стор.
..."harmless lunatics." " To those few well informed persons who still, from old prejudice, accuse us of, 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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