 | William Cowper - 1786 - 756 pages
...is plaufibly amufed. Defend me therefore common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nofe, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1787 - 230 pages
...plaufibly amus'd. Defend me therefore, common fenfe, fay I, . From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, . And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nofe, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1788 - 376 pages
...plaufibly amus'd. Defend me therefore, common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nofe, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1790 - 300 pages
...is plaufibly amus'd. Defend me therefore, common fenfe,fay I, From reveries fo airy, From the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ? 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nofe, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1793 - 384 pages
...me, therefore, common fenfe, fay I, From -reveries fo airy, from the toil r BOOK HI. THE GARDEN. IOI Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nofe, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 364 pages
...is plaulibly amui'd. Defend me, therefore, common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up! 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, BOOK III. THEOAltDEN. 7J And overbuilt with moft impending... | |
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 394 pages
...is plaufibly amns'd. Defend me, therefore, common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nofe, And overbuilt... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 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 ! God never meant that man should scale the heav'ns By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802 - 364 pages
...pluufibly atrmfed. Defend me therefore common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil . . Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, f Terribly arched and aquiline his nofe, An<l overbuilt... | |
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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... 
