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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... "
Poems: By William Cowper, ... In Two Volumes. ... - Page 99
by William Cowper - 1795
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Poems [ed. by J. Newton]. Illustr. with engr. from the designs of ..., Volume 2

William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...Tlfl. 1UQ9E "JW ?ji*tt^ m»f .^fal -fig 3ML I iv and a» iu&e — I e in pity, V 1\\& "tiruT^tii iitl 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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The Task: A Poem in Six Books

William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...Whife thoughtful man is plausibly amus'd. 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...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 8, Part 1

1812 - 666 pages
...etimu-, lants.' p, §02. This solemn kind of trifling, Cowper has happily ridiculed^ \>y comparing it to dropping buckets into empty wells And growing old in drawing nothing up.' ^rt. XV. The Advantages of early Piety unfolded and displayed, in a SßT ries of plain Discourses,...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping huckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! "Twere well, says one sage erndite, profound, Terrihly arched and aquiline his nose, And overhuilt with most impending...
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Geraldine; Or, Modes of Faith and Practice: A Tale, Volume 1

Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1820 - 312 pages
...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...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 10

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 278 pages
...While thoughtful man is plausibly amus'd. Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty...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...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 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 arched, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impending...
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Geraldine: or, Modes of Faith and Practice. A tale, in three volumes. By a lady

Mary Jane Mackenzie - English fiction - 1821 - 304 pages
...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...
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Correlative Claims and Duties; Or, An Essay on "The Necessity of a Church ...

Samuel Charles Wilks - Christianity - 1821 - 620 pages
...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 Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 36

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 562 pages
...While thoughtful man is plausibly amus'd. 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...
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