| Hugh James Rose - 1853 - 528 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 in my chair, and fairly laugh it out. Sir, he was irresistible." His dramas are twenty in number, mostly... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 592 σελίδες
...a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. lint the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it oat.' He also told the following aneedote, still more strongly illustrative... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 568 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 in my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible.' After this we find more frequent... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 568 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 <lown my knife and fork, throw myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible.'... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 σελίδες
...very difficult to please a man against his will. I went oa 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 ray chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible." After this we find more frequent... | |
| Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 424 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.' — Boswell's Johnson, vol.... | |
| Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 406 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.' — jSoiwell'i Johnson, vol.... | |
| Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 414 σελίδες
...to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to inind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible.' — BosweWs Johnson, vol. iii.... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 σελίδες
...very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on taking my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical,...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, or to put him out.... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1859 - 476 σελίδες
...very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on taking my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical,...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, or to put him out.... | |
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