 | Henry Barton Baker - 1878 - 428 σελίδες
...he said, " I was resolved not to be pleased. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical,...obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back in my chair, and laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible." It is strange that while all the other... | |
 | Henry Barton Baker - 1881 - 482 σελίδες
...be pleased. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog wa& so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back in my chair, and laugh it out. No, -ir, he was irresistible.' It is strange that while all the other... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - 378 σελίδες
...very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical that...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 σελίδες
...very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical,...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 Boswell - 1884 - 634 σελίδες
...very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical,...obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, 1 Johnson's London, a Poem, v. 145. and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible.1... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 172 σελίδες
...very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him ; but the dog was so very comical, 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 - 896 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 σελίδες
...the fellow I was resolved not to be pleased. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical that...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 σελίδες
...difficult to please a man against his will4. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical,...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... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1889 - 358 σελίδες
...very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on taking my dinner partly sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical that...myself back on my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir ; he was irresistible." It was said to be impossible to take Foote unawares, and put him out.... | |
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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 not... 
