 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - 378 Seiten
...was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will....obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible. He upon one' occasion experienced,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 Seiten
...was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will....obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible. 1 He upon one occasion experienced,... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 170 Seiten
...Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will....that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible." * JOHNSON'S AGILITY. HEN there was "no fool... | |
 | 1885 - 850 Seiten
...at Fitzherbert's, said :" Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not tobe pleased; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will....and fairly laugh it out. Sir, he was irresistible !" Numerous other anecdotes are related of the ready wit of Foote, but his wit by no means exhausted... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1885 - 942 Seiten
...Fitzherbert's, said, " Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will....and fairly laugh it out. Sir, he was irresistible !" Numerous other anecdotes are related of the ready wit of Foote, but his wit by no means exhausted... | |
 | 1885 - 896 Seiten
...Johnson's meeting with Foote at Fitzherbert's dinner-table : " I was resolved not to be pleased ; . . . but the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork and laugh it out. No, sir — he was irresistible." Winstanley was so pleasant a companion that Moray... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 490 Seiten
...fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will4. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting...obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly during his mayoralty, had presented ' See ante, ii. 154. an Address, 'the... | |
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 Seiten
...Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow I was resolved not to be pleased. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting...obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible. . . . " Mr. Arthur Lee mentioned... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 Seiten
...fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will4. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting...obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly daring his mayoralty, had presented an Address, 'the King himself owned he... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 580 Seiten
...of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very 1 Johnson's London, a Poem, v. 145. difficult to please a man against his will. I went...obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible.1 He upon one occasion experienced,... | |
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The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased — and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting... 
