 | Joseph Jowett - 1838 - 364 pages
...this is the whole history of a large proportion of mankind ; in the caustic language of the Poet — dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. " What shall we eat? what shall we drink? wherewithal shall we be clothed?" is the anxious cry of one.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...While thoughtful man is plausibly amused. Defend me therefore common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty...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... | |
 | Johnstone - English essays - 1840 - 386 pages
...While thoughtful man 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 !" The exercise of plain common sense (which folks that affect " science" are so apt to despise) •would... | |
 | William Gresley - Preaching - 1840 - 414 pages
...store of theological knowledge, for unless your head is well stored, your efforts will be only like " Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." Lastly, often read your ordination vows, and the pious and devoted ministers — no matter of what... | |
 | 1855 - 676 pages
...world in which God has placed them ! How many there are among at, whose whole life is spent '•In dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." "What shall I dot" Ah! that qnerulous tone does not indicate that the dream is yet shaken 08 ! Do?... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...While thoughtful man 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 'Twere well, says one, sage, erudite, profound Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1842 - 162 pages
...While thoughtful man 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 'Twere well, says one, sage, erudite, profound Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 pages
...Lord of all 7 THE PAINS OF PLEASING. Oеfend me, therefore, common sense — eay I, From reveries to airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! COWFXR. CHAPTER I. "Do you think the good lady of this house will ask us to eit down, Charlotte ?"... | |
 | John Overs - 1844 - 234 pages
...emanating from them ? When the times are hissing and boiling like a Geyser, where are they ? " — Dropping buckets into empty wells And growing old in drawing nothing up." • Our baker was fortunate enough in his boyhood to be taught the regular school-hopscotch, for, passing... | |
 | Hinton Castle Smith - Sermons, English - 1844 - 256 pages
...cisterns, " cisterns that can hold no water," t and you will still continue to thirst and draw, — " dropping buckets into empty wells, " And growing old in drawing nothing up ; " until the Spirit give you new tastes, and new desires, — a divine and spiritual craving, which... | |
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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... 
