...adhering to the *' broken cistern* " of human wisdom, are contented with the barren occupation »' Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." Those,also, who afe acquainted with the powerful fascination of the classical authors, will feel how...

...plaufibly amus'd. Defend me, therefore, common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Ctf dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, fays on.e fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and acquiline his nofe, And over-built...

...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 I 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, , Terribly arched and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt...

...plausibly amus'd. Defend me, therefore, common sensej 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 over-built...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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,"...

...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...