| William Cowper - 1802 - 364 páginas
...pluufibly atrmfed. Defend me therefore common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil . . Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, f Terribly arched and aquiline his nofe, An<l overbuilt... | |
| William Cowper - 1803 - 362 páginas
...plaufibly amus'd. Defend me, therefore, common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Ctf dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, fays on.e fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and acquiline his nofe, And over-built... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 234 páginas
...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 I 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, , Terribly arched and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 212 páginas
...plausibly amus'd. Defend me, therefore, common sensej 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 over-built... | |
| William Cowper - 1811 - 228 páginas
...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... | |
| 1812 - 666 páginas
...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,... | |
| Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1820 - 312 páginas
...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1821 - 556 páginas
...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... | |
| Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1821 - 304 páginas
...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... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 278 páginas
...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... | |
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