 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 pagina’s
...day-light put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been...and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen ; plump as a partridge ; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked as... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pagina’s
...would have realized it, in spite of all the spectres he had seen, and other supernatural besetments, " if " his path had not been crossed by a being that...of witches put together, and that was— a .woman." He happened to have " a soft and foolish heart toward the sex ;" and besides this predisposition to... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pagina’s
...daylight put an end to all these evils ; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been...and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen ; plump as a partridge ; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked as... | |
 | 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 pagina’s
...day-light put an end to all these evils, and he would have passed a pleasant life of it in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been...race of witches put together, and that was a woman.' — vol. ii. p. 363. This fair enemy to the peace of Ichabod Crane was one of his own pupils in psalmody,... | |
 | 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 pagina’s
...day-light put an end to all these evils, and he would have passed a pleasant life of it in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been...race of witches put together, and that was a woman.' — vol. ii. p. 363. This fair enemy to the peace of Ichabod Crane was one of his own pupils in psalmody,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 490 pagina’s
...daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been...and the whole race of witches put together, and that was—a woman. Among the musical disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pagina’s
...daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been...and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen ; plump as a partridge ; ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 pagina’s
...AMONG the musical disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his (Ichabod Crane's) instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel,...and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen ; plump as a partridge ; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked as... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pagina’s
...daylight put an end to all these evils ; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been...and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen ; plump as a partridge ; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked as... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1838 - 686 pagina’s
...100 ILLUSTRATED BY GEOROS Lllf I KMIAXK. " He would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been...of witches put together, and that was — a woman." — Skelch-Book. ST. ANTBOHT sat on a lowly stool, And a book was in his hand ; Never his eye from... | |
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Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity... 
