 For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund...  Selections of American Humour in Prose and Verse - Page 107by American humour - 1883 - 318 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1820 - 646 pages
...temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself,...philosophers, and other idle personages of the village ; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of his Majesty... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant use. For a long while he used to console himself,...designated by a rubicund portrait of his majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talk listlessly over village... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 pages
...temper never mellows with nge, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant use. For a long while he used to console himself,...designated by a rubicund portrait of his majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade of a long, la/.j summer's day, talk listlessly over village... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pages
...temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself,...philosophers, and other idle personages of the village ; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edgetool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself,...philosophers, and other idle personages of the village ; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty... | |
 | 1821 - 502 pages
...never mellows with age, ' and a sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with * constant use. For a long while he used to console himself,...philosophers, and other idle personages of the village ; ' which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated * by a rubicund portrait of his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself,...philosophers, and other idle personages of the village^ which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty... | |
 | 1819 - 606 pages
...temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant use. For a long while he used to console himself,...village, that held its sessions on a bench before a small mn, designated by a rubicund portrait of his majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the... | |
 | 1826 - 654 pages
...kind of perpetual cluhof the sages, philosophers, and other idle 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 they used to sit iu the shade of a long lazy summer's day, talk listlessly over village... | |
 | 1828 - 394 pages
...a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant use. For a long while he used 16 console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting...sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicurld portrait of his majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade, of a long lazy... | |
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