 | William Cowper - 1786 - 756 lehte
...While thoughtful man 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 lehte
...While thoughtful man 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 - 1787 - 346 lehte
...While thoughtful man is plaufibly amus'd. Defend me therefore, common fenfc, 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1788 - 376 lehte
...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 lehte
...While thoughtful man 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 lehte
...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 - 1800 - 438 lehte
...but it sleeps While thoughtful man is plausibly amus'd. Defend me, therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets...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 lehte
...While thoughtful man 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 - 1801 - 280 lehte
...but it sleeps While thoughtful man is plausibly amus'd. Defend me, therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets...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... | |
 | 1802 - 302 lehte
...it sleeps 185 While thoughtful man is plausibly amus'd. Defend me, therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets...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... | |
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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... 
