 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1891 - 900 pages
...of labor and must have the first solution. The labor unions, missing this truth are simply " . . . . dropping buckets into empty wells And growing old in drawing nothing up." THE FOLLY ILLUSTRATED. There is a parable of a man who owned a fine herd of cattle and lived in a region... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...exclaim, in the " 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 ! " CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY TREATIBK. pf ORATOET, 15 Eloqnence, 16 Rhetoric, 16 Oratory tuning the Ancients,... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 pages
...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 1 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd, and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 806 pages
...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 - 1855 - 582 pages
...is plausibly amused. Defend me therefore, common sense, say 1, 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 with most impending... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 298 pages
...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 ! 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impending... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 798 pages
...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 arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt with most impending... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Psychology - 1855 - 846 pages
...If they are to be taken at their word, they are at the best engaged in nothing better than the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." The course of the writers here alluded to, well exemplifies the evils arising from the personification... | |
 | George Smith - Theology, Practical - 1855 - 604 pages
...Sisyphus or Tantalus, he is ever labouring to accomplish an impossibility, and spends his time " In dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." Yes; for any error of this kind, the individual himself, and, next to him, his brethren, have to pay... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pages
...is 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 with most impending... | |
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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... 
