 | Brander Matthews, Laurence Hutton - 1900 - 340 σελίδες
...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 - 1900 - 928 σελίδες
...was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased : and ther states than our own. You do not know what a Brahmin...this: every man has aright to utter what he thinks upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out No, Sir, he was irresistible.t He upon one occasion experienced,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 σελίδες
...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....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,... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - 1902 - 506 σελίδες
...first time I met him, having no good opinion of the fellow, I \vas 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 ! ' But it is generally admitted... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 σελίδες
...caricatured him ; but when he met him at dinner, 'though he was resolved not to be pleased,' 'the dog was so upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out.' Of Foote's later and regular farces, The Minor — an unjustifiable... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 σελίδες
...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 2. He upon one occasion experienced,... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1905 - 142 σελίδες
...to be pleased with the comedian's conversation at dinner, found, nevertheless, that' "the dog was so comical that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out." In the presence of Mrs. Malaprop, criticism has to lay down... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 664 σελίδες
...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.2 He upon one occasion experienced,... | |
 | John Fyvie - 1909 - 418 σελίδες
...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." The readiness of his repartee... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1910 - 404 σελίδες
...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,... | |
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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... 
