...in their stead. And surely he may now be told in the words of the poet that we are impatient of— "The toil Of dropping buckets into empty Wells. And growing old in drawing nothing up." CHIEF BARON Sir JP Mahaffy. the distinguished classical scholar O'GRADY of Dublin who devoted much...

...every lover of nature who can intelligently read it. Too often the scientific worker is accused . . . of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. Such a book as "The Vegetation of New Zealand " shows how unworthy these aspersions sometimes are....

...more magical - would come all too soon. William Cowper mourned his passing 'From reveries so airy' to the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. Not, I hasten to reassure myself, that it has come to that. Having been allowed (nobody appeared to...

...once the Philippines were reached, and Davis shuddered at the thought. "But I am getting tired of this toil of dropping buckets into empty- wells, and growing old in drawing nothing up, and so also are my associates."38 The problem of McKinley's silence remained. The peace commission...

...of time, it is all he has now, and he offers his all Nothing. Cowper summed it up when he wrote of the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. In another poem Rochester calls Nothing his elder brother because he had 'a being ere the world was...