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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... "
Yearbook of Pharmacy: Comprising Abstracts of Papers Relating to Pharmacy ... - Página 382
1881
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Correlative Claims and Duties; Or, An Essay on "The Necessity of a Church ...

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,"...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

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...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volumen36

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...
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The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine ..., Volumen2

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...
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A Letter on the Nature and Effects of the Tread-wheel: As an Instrument of ...

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...
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The poems of William Cowper, with notes from his own correspondence

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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

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...
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The Parish Church; Or, Religion in Britain

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....
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Poems, Volumen2

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...
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Notes of a journey in the north of Ireland, in ... 1827, to which is added ...

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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