 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 to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw...  The Quarterly Review - Σελίδα 513επεξεργασία από - 1854Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Hugh James Rose - 1853 - 528 σελίδες
...relates, met him for the first time at Fitzherbert's. " Having no good opinion of the fellow," says he, " I was resolved not to be pleased, and it is very difficult...myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it out. Sir, he was irresistible." His dramas are twenty in number, mostly built on temporary topics, and full... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 602 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...throw myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it oat.' He also told the following aneedote, still more strongly illustrative of the power of the wit... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 σελίδες
...dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back in ray chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible."...connection with the Cock-lane ghost, though this was or.ly a retort for a contemptuous allusion of his own, and was at once abandoned if ever seriously... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 424 σελίδες
...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.' — Boswell's Johnson, vol. iii. pp. 70, 71. SIR THOMAS MILLS. 173 tunate wit, who possessed very little... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 406 σελίδες
...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.' — jSoiwell'i Johnson, vol. iii. pp. 70, 71. SIR THOMAS MILLS. 173 tunate wit, who possessed very... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1859 - 476 σελίδες
...the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw 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. As he was telling a story at... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 σελίδες
...the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw 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. As he was telling a story at... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 356 σελίδες
...The first time I was in Foote's company was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased : and it is very...myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it out. Sir, he was irresistible.' Consoled by Foote's misfortunes and ultimate complicated misery for his... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 504 σελίδες
...The first time I was in Foote's company was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very...myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it out. Sir, he was irresistible." Consoled by Foote's misfortunes and ultimate complicated misery for his... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 σελίδες
...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. He, upon one occasion experienced, in an extraordinary degree, the efficacy of his powers of entertaining.... | |
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