 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 ... - Page 3161819Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - Short stories, American - 1843 - 400 pages
...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...idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing oil his family. Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going , and everything he said... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 340 pages
...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 - Americans - 1849 - 538 pages
...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 dmning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family.... | |
 | Washington Irving - Americans - 1852 - 580 pages
...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 in Itis ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
..., 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...left to himself, he would have whistled life away in perfeet contentment; but his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...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...and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning, uицц, and night her tongue was incessantly going, and every thing he said or did was sure to produce... | |
 | Washington Irving - Americans - 1865 - 532 pages
...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 lxnmd. If left to himself, he would have whistled life away in perfect contentment; but his wife kept... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 pages
...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 eloqiaencc. Rip had but one way... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1868 - 570 pages
...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... | |
 | Golden gift - 1868 - 168 pages
...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 in his cars about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning, noon,... | |
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