 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 ... - Side 3161819Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 sider
...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... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 sider
...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...Morning, noon, and night her tongue was incessantly u going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had... | |
 | 1891 - 432 sider
...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 - 1891 - 276 sider
...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 - 1891 - 140 sider
...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 Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1891 - 508 sider
...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...perfect contentment ; but his wife kept continually dinnin°- in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 278 sider
...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...have whistled life away in perfect contentment ; but hig wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 sider
...got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starre on a penny than work for a pound. If lelt to himself, he would have whistled life away, in perfect...wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his ldleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning, noon, and night, her... | |
 | 1891 - 718 sider
...neighbours; hat he never would do a stroke of work for himself, and his wife kept continually talking about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. His children were as wild as if they had belonged to nobody. — WASHINGTON IRVING. 5. Decline throughout... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 170 sider
...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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