 Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound....  The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of The Scots ... - Seite 3161819Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Washington Irving - 1868 - 524 Seiten
...brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, fmd would rather starve on a penny tiinn work for a pound. If left to himself, he would have...contentment; but his wife kept continually dinning in hi* ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 260 Seiten
...mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would...noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 244 Seiten
...mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would...noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 Seiten
...mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy; eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble; and would...noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going; and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 Seiten
...mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would...contentment ; but his wife kept continually dinning into his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning,... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 Seiten
...mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, cat white bread or brown, whichever for many a time I have been InJf in love with easeful Death, Call'd him everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 Seiten
...galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady did her train in bad weather. pound. If left to himself he would have whistled life...noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 Seiten
...mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would...noon, and night her tongue was incessantly going, and everything ho said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip's sole domestic... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 Seiten
...mortals, of foolish, well-oiled disposition, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. No wonder that his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 510 Seiten
...mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would...noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way... | |
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