 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 Works of Washington Irving ... - Seite 48von Washington Irving - 1861Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Brian Thomsen - 2002 - 612 Seiten
...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...her tongue was incessantly going, and every thing he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 648 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Marty Roth - 2005 - 272 Seiten
..."was one of those happy mortals of foolish, well oiled dispositions, who take the world easy . . . and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound" (30, 31). Rip's commitment to pleasure disturbs his marriage, but marital discord is blamed only on... | |
 | Aaron Sachs - 2007 - 510 Seiten
...among the village children but never quite makes ends meet; whose wife constantly upbraids him for "his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family"; who finally falls asleep for twenty years and then awakes, bizarrely, to behold "a precise counterpart... | |
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