 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
 | Demosthenes - 1864 - 266 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 Life, p. 5 15, Ed. 1860. Have /ià ДГ áXXri, oú/c dXXá, been fully investigated? I mean... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 σελίδες
...the dog was so very comical, that I waa obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible. — Johnson. 515. IT was, I think, after I had left London in this year (1776), that this epitaph gave... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 σελίδες
...the dog was so veiy 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. How TO WRITE BIOGRAPHY. If a man is to write A Panegyric, he may keep vices out of sight ; but if he... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1871 - 572 σελίδες
...pleased : and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty 32 sullenly, affecting not to mind him; but the dog was...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... | |
 | 1872 - 774 σελίδες
...sullenly, affecting for a long time not to mind him :" [only fancy Johnson's face when he was sullen !] "but the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged...throw myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it out with the rest. No, Sir ; there was no avoiding it ; the fellow was irresistible !" There is little... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1873 - 480 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 put him out. As he was telling a story at a... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 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.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 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.... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 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.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1874 - 496 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 put him out. As he was telling a story at a... | |
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