 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...survived the fall ! Great contest follows, and much learned dust. From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. How various his employments whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly in return Esteems that busy... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Mental illness - 1856 - 360 pages
...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." We derive the materials for this continued investigation from Cowper himself. Up to the period of his... | |
 | HODGES - 1856 - 780 pages
..."harmless lunatics." " To those few well informed persons who still, from old prejudice, accuse us of, Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up, we may say that till the well of creation be emptied, there is no danger of our returning from our... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...is plausibly amused. Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil am Jenks ! SYMPATHY WITH ERRINO HUMANITY. Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arched, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...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 ! 190 JUSTIFICATION OF THE PRECEDING CKNSDKES. 'Twere well, says one, sage, erudite, profound, Terribly... | |
 | HODGES - 1856 - 780 pages
...at this season of the year, as " an animal found on the sea-shore between high and low water marks." Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up, we may say that till the well of creation be emptied, there is no danger of our returning from our... | |
 | American periodicals - 1857 - 850 pages
...philosophical theorists: " 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." Mr. Fortune and some English friends, who went up the country by canal from Ningpo, were accustomed... | |
 | John Baillie - 1857 - 30 pages
...LONDON. MDCCCLVII. I " 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 ! " CowPEK. AN EARNEST MINISTRY, " THEN said the Interpreter, Come in ; I will show thee that which... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - Aesthetics - 1857 - 374 pages
...fields, the better ! "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.'' 1 We have seen that systems of morals have been propounded in every age ; by the wise Chinese, and... | |
 | 1857 - 502 pages
...much akin to the labours of the schoolmen of the middle ages described so faithfully as employed in "Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up," these men brought us hack to the wholesome starting point of, — " Know your customer first, and tlien... | |
| |
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... 
