 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 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 ! SYMPATHY WITH ERRINO HUMANITY. Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arched, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 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 JUSTIFICATION OF THE PRECEDING CKNSDKES. 'Twere well, says one, sage, erudite, profound, Terribly... | |
 | Elias J. MacEwan - 1900 - 330 pages
...evidence of his having burned a barn. having been known 'to steal horses was \ evidence 'of 6. I dread the toil of dropping buckets into empty wells, and growing old in drawing nothing up. I dread toil dropping buckets 7. Ready to depart, we were about to bid our friends farewell. 1 to We... | |
 | William Williams - 1902 - 360 pages
...— A necessary act incurs no blame." 6. " 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." " O yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill ; That nothing walks with aimless... | |
 | Sir James Henry Yoxall - 1902 - 350 pages
...the profane, let me not be thought to arraign the wisdom of my superiors. —Oxford in the Vacation. The toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells And growing old in drawing nothing up. —The Task, iii. The men of our time are not to be converted or perverted by quartos. XV. THE next... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 pages
...lii. The Garden. Line 41. Great contest follows, and much learned dust. Line 101. From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.1 Line iss. 1 See Dryden, page 277. 2 No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. — Pun. SYHUS:... | |
 | 1913 - 1430 pages
...for the things that endure; we spend our strength and money for that which does not satisfy; we are "Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." We encumber ourselves on the journey of life with much unnecessary impedimenta, like the White Knight... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 pages
...Poetry : Swift Opportunity. w. R. ALGER. 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. Task, Bk. III. w. COWPER. Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips !... | |
 | Andrew Bruce Davidson - 1904 - 402 pages
...It seems often as if our life were to be consumed in waiting, and in the end receiving nothing : " Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up," as if we had to exhaust ourselves looking. As the Psalmist wrote, " Mine eyes fail while I wait for... | |
 | Henry George - 1905 - 462 pages
...CHAPTER I. ORGANIZATION OF LABORERS CHAPTER II. DANGERS OF UNIONISM Defend me, therefore, . . . . . . from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. — COWPER: Task. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little, as possible. The... | |
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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... 
