 Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.  The Elements of the Short Story - Seite 54herausgegeben von - 1915 - 294 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 Seiten
...grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool...personages of the village, which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of his Majesty George the Third. Here... | |
 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 Seiten
...companion, like a Christian? Lmer. n6 TREASURY OF TABLE TA LK. TEMPER. A tart temper never mellows with age ; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Washington Irving. A HAPPY UNION. Quin used to say, that of all the banns of marriage he ever heard,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 260 Seiten
...grew worse and worse with Hip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool...personages of the village, which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of his Majesty George the Third. Here... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 244 Seiten
...grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on : a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool...personages of the village ; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third. Here... | |
 | 1872 - 660 Seiten
...grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on. A tart temper never .mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool...personages of the village, which held its sessions on a bench before a small .inn designated by a rubicund portrait of his Majesty George the Third. Here... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 Seiten
...grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on. A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool...frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, Ehilosophers, and other idle personages of the village, which eld its session on a bench before a small... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 Seiten
...never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener by constant иве. FE-GRINDER. Ill ENGLISH SAPPHICS. [Right Hon. George...Canning, born in London, llth April, 1770; died in that held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of his majesty... | |
 | Percival Keane (pseud.) - 1873 - 128 Seiten
...simplicity, " you are a complete proof to the contrary ! " TEMPER. — A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Washington Irving. LORD LYTTELTON TO LADY BROWN. When I was young and debonnaire, The brownest... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 Seiten
...pictures giving lectures of virtue, and leaving impressions of vice." TEMPER. A tart temper never mellows with age ; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Washington Irving. USELESS REGRETS. Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that's gone.... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 Seiten
...grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool...personages of the village, -which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of his Majesty George the Third. Here... | |
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