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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... "
The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review - Page 533
1851
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1786 - 756 pages
...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...
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The Task: A Poem. In Six Books. To which is Added, Tirocinium: Or, A Review ...

William Cowper - 1787 - 230 pages
...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...
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Poems, Volume 2

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...
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Poems: By William Cowper, ... In Two Volumes. ...

William Cowper - 1790 - 300 pages
...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...
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Poems: By William Cowper, of the Inner Temple Esq. In Two Volumes ...

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...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pages
...thoughtful man 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...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1800 - 364 pages
...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...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pages
...thoughtful man 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 over-built...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1802 - 364 pages
...thoughtful man is 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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Poems of Established Reputation: To Wit: 1st. The Art of Preserving Health

1802 - 302 pages
...thoughtful man 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 ! 190 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt...
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