 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 - 1892 - 422 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...a penny than work for a pound. If left to himself, ho would have whistled life away in perfect contentment ; but his wife kept continually dinning in... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 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. Kip had but one way... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 422 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 404 Seiten
...dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with m 'Rip Van tUinhlc least thought or trouble, and would rather starve...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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 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...whistled life away, in perfect contentment; but his wife"kep_t continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 280 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...work for a pound. If left to himself, he would have so whistled life away in perfect contentment ; but his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 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... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1897 - 330 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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