 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
 | 1907 - 832 стор.
...cases. Prof. Amos O. Warner — American Charities. Defend me, therefore, . . . . . . from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old In drawing nothing up. Cowper — Task. Ah, why Should life all labour be? Tennyson — The Lotus Eaters. 669 CHAPTER I POVERTY... | |
 | David James Burrell - 1908 - 296 стор.
...apostrophe to common sense : 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. This condition is due, first, to the absence of any real desire to know. For there is a vital difference... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 508 стор.
...work for this, and with tools suited to this end, is it that so many of them pass their lives " In dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." These things being so, ecclesiastical revivals do no considerable good. They make superstitious church... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1908 - 750 стор.
...CO-OPERATION BEGAN " 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."—COWPER. MATTERS were at a very bad pass—as they had often been before—with the working people... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 500 стор.
...work for this, and with tools suited to this end, is it that so many of them pass their lives " In dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." These things being so, ecclesiastical revivals do no considerable good. They make superstitious church... | |
 | Nina Cust - 1909 - 612 стор.
...the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt. Photograph bv Bruckn1amt. p- 248] THE ADVENTURES OF A PALSGRAVE Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. COWPER. I THE wind blew stark from the south and the dog-star, portent as well of great dignities as... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 стор.
...Henry VL Act 1. Sc, 4. 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. 2585 Cowper: Task. Bk. iii. Lire 185. Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone,... | |
 | National Catholic Educational Association - 1913 - 1550 стор.
...schools. A disinterested observer could not but wonder at certain features of it, _, ... The painful toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. Two noble traits of our Christian society seem threatened by this universal worship of the present... | |
 | Mrs. Adelaide (Benedict) Roche - 1913 - 144 стор.
...hammer. — Beach. 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. — Gowper. Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into the realization... | |
 | 1867 - 1202 стор.
...unsanctified, appear to the pious poet, intent only on God's glory, to be nothing better than the toil — " Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing np." The evils in the church are reprobated in the pages of Cowper, no lea than the sins of the world.... | |
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