 I endeavor to take things as they come with cheerfulness, and when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner.  Washington Irving - Page 34by Charles Dudley Warner - 1881 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1862 - 482 pages
...the inn appears a palace. For my part, I endeavor to take things as they come with cheerfulness, and when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor...this world. I therefore endeavor to be pleased with every thing about me, and with the masters, mistresses, and servants of the inns, particularly when... | |
 | Pierre Munroe Irving - Authors, American - 1862 - 408 pages
...things as they come with cheerfulness, and when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavour to get a taste to suit my dinner. And he adds : There...for one of the Smellfungi of this world. I therefore endeavour to be pleased with every thing about me, -and with the masters, mistresses, and servants... | |
 | Pierre Munroe Irving - Authors, American - 1862 - 504 pages
...palace. For my part, I endeavor to take things as OF WASHINGTON IRVING. they come with cheerfulness, and -when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor...get a taste to suit my dinner. And he adds : There ia nothing I dread more than to be taken for one of the Smellfungi of this world. I therefore endeavor... | |
 | Pierre Munroe Irving - Authors, American - 1864 - 484 pages
...the inn appears a palace. For my part, I endeavor to take things aa they come with cheerfulness, and when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner. And lie adds : There is nothing I dread more than to be taken for one of the Smellfungi of this world.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Authors, American - 1881 - 324 pages
...whole of my journey I had found reason to exclaim \ against it for depriving me of some valuable I curiosity or celebrated monument, but this / was the...I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner." And be adds: " There is nothing I dread more than to be taken for one of the Smell-fungi of this world.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 536 pages
...to one of his brothers : " For my part I endeavor to take things as they come, with cheerfulness ; when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner. . . . There is nothing I dread more than to be one of the Smell-fungi of this world." Some adventures... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1901 - 538 pages
...wrote to one of his brothers : "For my part I endeavor to take things as they come, with cheerfulness ; when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner. . . . There is nothing I dread more than to be one of the Smell-fungi of this world." Some adventures... | |
 | Edna Henry Lee Turpin - Readers - 1902 - 432 pages
...least of its discomforts. " I endeavor," said he, " to take things as they come with cheerfulness ; when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner." He spent two years visiting France, Switzerland, and Holland, and spent a short time in London. He... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - American essays - 1904 - 462 pages
...consequences, receive a more hearty and sincere execration than at that moment. Throughout the whole of my journey I had found reason to exclaim against it for...of the inns, particularly when I perceive they have c all the dispositions in the world ' to serve me ; as Sterne says, c It is enough for heaven and ought... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 446 pages
...biographer adds that it was never Irving's habit to stroke the world the wrong way. One of his maxims was, " When I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner." SUNNYSIDE, IRVING'S HOME AT TARRYTOWN Knickerbocker's History of New York. — The New York Evening... | |
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