| Samuel Charles Wilks - 1821 - 620 páginas
...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,"... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 310 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 arch'd and aquiline his nose, AnA overbuilt with... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 562 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... | |
| Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 páginas
...became an out-and-out angler. But it proved, in my hands, as in many others before me, something Like dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! The only thing I ever caught''' was a bramble, which appeared to have been lodged in the mud ; but... | |
| John Ivatt Briscoe - 1824 - 186 páginas
...salutary sentence of hard labour might be unprofitably perverted. It is in truth *, " the toil " Of dropping buckets into empty wells, " And growing old in drawing nothing up." Divested of .all prejudice on the subject, I am quite at a loss to understand on what foundation the... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - 450 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 arch'd, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 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 ! Twerc well, says one sage erudite, profund, Terribly arch'd, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
| Thomas Wood - 1825 - 440 páginas
...256—258. to as little purpose as those philosophical speculatists, whom the poet describ.es as " dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." Such wa^the state of sacred literature, and the morals of the clergy were equally low and disgraceful.... | |
| William Cowper - 1826 - 242 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 ! 190 'Twere well, says one, sage, erudite, profound Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
| 1828 - 216 páginas
...in the habit of continually passing, his answers forcibly reminded us of the unprofitable task " Of dropping buckets into empty wells, " And growing old in drawing nothing up." I will not, however, deprive him of his meed of praise : he had one redeeming quality, that counterbalanced... | |
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