 | Frederic Rowland Marvin - 1905 - 346 páginas
...said he, "will be greater than that of the famous French potter." And so year after year he went on " Dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up." The gifted Sylvia Wright followed her sister Frances to America, and bought a tract of land, with which... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1906 - 374 páginas
...THE EVIL DAYS BEFORE CO-OPERATION BEGAN " 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." — COWPER. MATTERS were at a very bad pass — as they had often been before — with the working... | |
 | 1906 - 810 páginas
...iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. S. WOODWORTH, The Bucket Buckets. The toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. COWPER, The Task: The Garden, lines 188-190 Now up, now down, as buckets in a well. DRYDEN, Palamon... | |
 | Carl Gregg Doney - 1906 - 230 páginas
...for His sake who hung on it." — George Punchard. "Defend me, common-sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old with drawing nothing up." — Cowper. "I am sick of opinions. . . . Give me a humble, gentle lover... | |
 | 1907 - 832 páginas
...hundred of all the cases. Prof. Amos O. Warner — American Charities. Defend me, therefore, . . . . . . from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old In drawing nothing up. Cowper — Task. Ah, why Should life all labour be? Tennyson — The Lotus Eaters. 669 CHAPTER I POVERTY... | |
 | 1907 - 856 páginas
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 | 1934 - 436 páginas
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 | David James Burrell - 1908 - 296 páginas
...wellknown apostrophe to common sense : 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. This condition is due, first, to the absence of any real desire to know. For there is a vital difference... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1908 - 750 páginas
...BEFORE CO-OPERATION BEGAN " 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."—COWPER. MATTERS were at a very bad pass—as they had often been before—with the working people... | |
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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... 
