 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 to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Σελίδα 71των James Boswell - 1820Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Sir Claude Phillips - 1894 - 474 σελίδες
...in recounting a meeting at one of those dinners of wits and celebrities so common at that time : " Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved...obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible." Reynolds himself is credited —... | |
 | Samuel Foote - 1894 - 252 σελίδες
...literature," could not resist him. "The first ti in company with Foote was at Fitz I was erbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved...is very difficult to please a man against his will. l went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical... | |
 | 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 Of Foote's later and regular farces, The Minor — an unjustifiable attack upon the Methodists —... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 σελίδες
...Dryden to be above the reach of human abilities.' The Rambler, No. 93. Johnson said of Foote : — ' Having no good opinion of the fellow I was resolved...very difficult to please a man against his will.' Boswell's_/0^«j0«, iii. 69. ' It is seldom anything practically convinces a man that does not please... | |
 | 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...myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out." In the presence of Mrs. Malaprop, criticism has to lay down his knife and fork, and fairly laugh it... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1864 - 866 σελίδες
...regarding him, as related to Boswell : ' The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved...obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it out Sir, he was irresistible.' On another occasion he thus contrasts... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...Lord Chesterfield's." JOHNSON : " The first time I was in company with Foote, was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved...obliged to lay down my knife and fork throw myself back 1 Johnson's " London a Poem," v. 145. — BOSWELL. upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir,... | |
 | 1922 - 1378 σελίδες
...despised without fearing him, says : ' The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fiuheftert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow I was resolved...obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself Forannan back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it. out. No, -IT, he was irresistible ' (BOBWELL, Johnton,... | |
 | 1854 - 694 σελίδες
...Having no good opinion of the fellow," he said, describing the incident long afterwards to Boswell, " I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very...affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comica\, tYvaX, l -wsß down my kmfe ana fotV.,\! ¡n my chair, atià îawVv \a»$v Vs SAMUEL FOOTE.... | |
 | 1844 - 768 σελίδες
...that he had wit ; and added — " The first time I was in company with Foote, was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved...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, that... | |
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