 The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish...  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - الصفحة 67بواسطة Washington Irving - 1823عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | George Henry Nettleton - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging 10 through woods and swamps, and up hill and down dale,...or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor, even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - عدد الصفحات: 356
...profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance: for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's...or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian... | |
 | Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - عدد الصفحات: 52
...profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's...or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian-corn,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - عدد الصفحات: 1198
...profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's...be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods, and swamps and up hill and... | |
 | Allan Lloyd Smith, Victor Sage - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 256
...with Rip who 'would carry a fowling piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through the woods, and swamps and up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels' (p. 30). Unlike the 'trudging' young man, the 'toiling' elder is neither characterised by a weapon... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 840
...profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's...or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian... | |
 | M. J. Turner - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lancet and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.... | |
 | Paul C. Adams, Steven D. Hoelscher, Karen E. Till - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for...down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons." Swamps were also known to breed mosquitoes, a dangerous source of infection. Edgar Allan Poe's story... | |
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