| William Johnson Neale - 1837 - 324 Seiten
...bill, nor troubled his head how the world went, nor where the wind blew him, but singing the while, " A light heart and a thin pair of breeches Will go through the world, my hrave boys !" CHAPTER X. " Your regular fine-gentleman-merchant-captain is a rare animal, I admit ;... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1838 - 686 Seiten
...sundry, he would regain his temper, and philosophically sing Why should we quarrel for riches, Or other such glittering toys ? A light heart and a thin pair...breeches Will go through the world, my brave boys ! He would struggle on, and puzzle it out in one way or another ; and, if Fortune smiled once more,... | |
| 1838 - 954 Seiten
...temper, and philosophically sing Why should we quarrel for riches, Or other such glitiering toys 1 A light heart and a thin pair of breeches Will go through the world, my brave boys ! He would struggle on, and puzzle it out in one way or another ; and, if Fortune smiled once more,... | |
| William Johnson Neale - 1841 - 328 Seiten
...bill, nor troubled his head how the world went, nor where the wind blew him, but singing the while, " A light heart and a thin pair of breeches Will go through the world, my brave boys!" CHAPTER X. " Your regular fine-gentleman-merchant-captain is a rare animal, I admit; but when you do... | |
| 1841 - 888 Seiten
...knapsacks are slung on our shoulders, and who pleasantly toddle along, carolling : — " Л light heart and thin pair of breeches Will go through the world, my brave boys!" Again, how fresh and vivid are our sensations ;' how sweet to us are the sunny glimpses that will cross,... | |
| 346 Seiten
...humming to himself — " Oh, why should we quarrel for riches, Or any such glittering toys ; AMight heart, and a thin pair of breeches, Will go through the world, my brave boys." " It's well for you, Harry, that you have such a flow of spirits," said Pembroke, reproachfully. "... | |
| Washington Irving - 1848 - 1124 Seiten
...stanza : — "Then why should we quarrel for riches, Or any such glittering toys ; A light heart and thin pair of breeches, Will go through the world, my brave boys ! " » The more accurate commentators, however, declare in favor of the other reading, and affirm that the worthy... | |
| Matthew Henry Barker - 1844 - 1090 Seiten
...quitted the place, cursing his hard fate and his folly, followed by Harry humming to himself, " Oh, why should we quarrel for riches. Or any such glittering...thin pair of breeches, Will go through the world, my braye boys." " It's well for you, Hany, that you have such a flow of spirits," said Pembroke, reproachfully.... | |
| 1847 - 482 Seiten
...looked on its streets and towers. The old song says, — and no modem song can gainsay it, — that— " A light heart and a thin pair of breeches, Will go through the world, my brave boys ;" and it was with these two requisites for going through the world, and doing it besides in a pleasant,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 472 Seiten
...soundest, and who, peradventure, may have been the author of that truly philosophical stanza : " Then why should we quarrel for riches, Or any such glittering toys ; A light heart and thin pair of breeches Will go thorough the world, my brave boys !" The more accurate commentators,... | |
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