 Some people say it is a very easy thing to get up of a cold morning. You have only, they tell you, to take the resolution ; and the thing is done. This may be very true ; just as a boy at school has only to take a flogging, and the thing is over. But...  The New Mirror - Page 268edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - 1889 - 588 pages
...necessity of shaving ; and that when Eve walked out of her delicious bower, she did not step upon ice three inches thick. Some people say it is a very easy thing...our minds upon it ; and we find it a very pleasant exercise to discuss the matter candidly before wo get up. This at least is not idling, though it may... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1889 - 592 pages
...necessity of shaving; and that when Eve walked out of her delicious bower, she did not step upon ice three inches thick. Some people say it is a very easy thing...our minds upon it; and we find it a very pleasant exercise to discuss the matter candidly before we get up. This at least is not idling, though it may... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English essays - 1915 - 518 pages
...necessity of shaving ; and that when Eve walked out of her delicious bower, she did not step upon ice three inches thick. Some people say it is a very easy thing...our minds upon it ; and we find it a very pleasant exercise to discuss the matter, candidly, before we get up. This at least is not idling, though it... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 540 pages
...necessity of shaving; and that when Eve walked out of her delicious bower, she did not step upon ice three inches thick. Some people say it is a very easy thing...our minds upon it; and we find it a very pleasant exercise to discuss the matter, candidly, before we get up. This at least is not idling, though it... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 540 pages
...delicious bower, she did not step upon ice three inches thick. Some people say it is a very easy thmg to get up of a cold morning. You have only, they tell...our minds upon it ; and we find it a very pleasant exercise to discuss the matter, candidly, before we get up. This at least is not idling, though it... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - American essays - 1921 - 416 pages
...necessity of shaving; and that when Eve walked out of her delicious bower, she did not step upon ice three inches thick. Some people say it is a very easy thing...our minds upon it; and we find it a very pleasant exercise to discuss the matter, candidly, before we get up. This, at least, is not idling, though it... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1917 - 436 pages
...fiercely modern and military." statement that it is easy to arise in the cold. "Some people say it ia a very easy thing to get up of a cold morning. You...very true; just as a boy at school has only to take a dogging and the thing is over." He gives a most amusing dialogue between a master who wishes to lie... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - American prose literature - 1923 - 396 pages
...necessity of shaving; and that when Eve walked out of her delicious bower, she did not step upon ice three inches thick. Some people say it is a very easy thing...our minds upon it; and we find it a very pleasant exercise to discuss the matter, candidly, before we get up. This at least is not idling, though it... | |
 | Albert Croll Baugh, Paul Cliff Kitchen, Matthew Wilson Black - English language - 1924 - 246 pages
...in a playful mood. Leigh Hunt illustrates this spirit in his essay "On Getting Up on Cold Mornings": Some people say it is a very easy thing to get up...our minds upon it ; and we find it a very pleasant exercise to discuss the matter, candidly, before we get up. This, at least, is not idling, though it... | |
 | George William McClelland - English Literature (selections: Extracts, Etc.) - 1925 - 1180 pages
...necessity of shaving; and that when Eve walked out of her delicious bower, she did not step upon ice three er joined with the other boys in their ordinary diversions:...amusement was in winter, when he took a pleasure in exercise to discuss the matter, candidly, before we get up. This, at least, is not idling, though it... | |
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