 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
 | Mackenzie Bell - 1927 - 516 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...pound. If left to himself, he would have whistled hie away in perfect contentment ; but his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness,... | |
 | Henry Carr Pearson, Charles Wesley Hunt - 1927 - 280 sider
...take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with the least thought or (2), and would rather starve on a penny than work for a...himself, he would have whistled life away in perfect (3); but his wife kept continually (4) in his ears about his (5), his carelessness, and the ruin he... | |
 | Melvin Everett Haggerty - 1927 - 584 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 one way of... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 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, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - 52 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 - 1983 - 1198 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...his family. Morning noon and night her tongue was incessandy going, and every thing he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence.... | |
 | Jane Roland Martin - 1995 - 252 sider
...enlisting our sympathies with his unhappy domestic existence and making light of her concerns about Rip's "idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family, " Irving never lets his readers ask how Rip's family could have survived economically during his twenty-year... | |
 | Allan Lloyd Smith, Victor Sage - 1994 - 256 sider
...however, was one of those happy mortals of foolish, well oiled dispositions, who take the world easy.... his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about...carelessness and the ruin he was bringing on his family (p. 31). This passage occurs barely three pages into the seventeen -page tale. From ihis point on,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - 840 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 Phillips - 2002 - 648 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... | |
| |
