...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...

...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...

...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 arched, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impending...

...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...

...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,"...

...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...

...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...

...the 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...

...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 ! Twerc well, says one sage erudite, profund, Terribly arch'd, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt...

...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...