 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - Liczba stron: 378
...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 - Liczba stron: 634
...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 - Liczba stron: 172
...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 - Liczba stron: 850
...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, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - Liczba stron: 942
...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 - Liczba stron: 896
...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, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - Liczba stron: 490
...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 - Liczba stron: 216
...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 - Liczba stron: 490
...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 - Liczba stron: 578
...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... 
