 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 - 1892 - 422 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...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 - Avarice - 1893 - 318 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 - Short stories - 1894 - 234 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. Kip had but one way... | |
 | Washington Irving - Readers - 1894 - 422 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 - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1894 - 404 pages
...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 - Wit and humor - 1894 - 462 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...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 - American fiction - 1894 - 280 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...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 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...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 - American literature - 1897 - 554 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... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1897 - 330 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... | |
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