 Old Baltus Van Tassel was a perfect picture of a thriving, contented, liberalhearted farmer. He seldom, it is true, sent either his eyes or his thoughts beyond the boundaries of his own farm ; but within those everything was snug, happy, and well-conditioned.  Rip Van Winkle: A Legend of the Hudson - Σελίδα 159των Washington Irving - 1900 - 230 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 σελίδες
...eyes or his thoughts beyond the boundaries of his own farm ; but within those every thing was snug, happy, and well-conditioned. He was satisfied with...abundance, rather than the style in which he lived. His strong hold 'was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, fertile nooks,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 σελίδες
...eyes or his thoughts beyond the boundaries of his own farm; but within those every thing was snug, happy, and well-conditioned. He was satisfied with...abundance, rather than the style in which he lived. His strong hold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, fertile nooks,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 σελίδες
...Baltus Van Tassel, a substantial Dutch farmer, whose residence is thus described. ' His strong hold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of...Dutch farmers are so fond of nestling. A great elm spread its broad branches over it, at the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the softest and sweetest... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 σελίδες
...Baltus Van Tassel, a substantial Dutch farmer, whose residence is thus described. ' His strong hold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of...Dutch farmers are so fond of nestling. A great elm spread its broad branches over it, at the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the softest and sweetest... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 416 σελίδες
...within those every thing was snug, happy, and well-conditioned. He was satisfied with his VOL. II. Z wealth, but not proud of it ; and piqued himself upon...abundance, rather than the style in which he lived. His strong hold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, fertile nooks,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 490 σελίδες
...within those every thing was snug, happy, and well-conditioned. He was satisfied with his VOL. n. z wealth, but not proud of it; and piqued himself upon...abundance, rather than the style in which he lived. His strong hold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, fertile nooks,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 σελίδες
...eyes or his thoughts beyond the boundaries of his own farm ; but within those every thing was snug, happy, and well-conditioned. He was satisfied with...abundance, rather than the style in which he lived. His strong hold was situated on the banks of the iudson, in one of those green, sheltered, ferile nooks,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 σελίδες
...eyes or his thoughts beyond the boundaries of his own farm ; but within these, every thing was snug, happy, and wellconditioned. He was satisfied with...the Dutch farmers are -so fond of nestling. A great elm-tree spread its broad branches over it ; at the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the softest... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 σελίδες
...eyes or his thoughts beyond the boundaries of his own farm ; but within those every thing was snug, happy, and well-conditioned. He was satisfied with...abundance, rather than the style in which he lived. His strong hold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, fertile nooks,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 σελίδες
...eyes or his thoughts beyond the boundaries of his own farm ; but within those every thing was snug, happy, and well-conditioned. He was satisfied with...abundance, rather than the style in which he lived. His strong hold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, fertile nooks,... | |
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