 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 414 pages
...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....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... | |
 | John Forster - 1858 - 486 pages
...said, describing the incident long afterwards to Boswell, " I was resolved not " to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man " against his...myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it " out. No, Sir, he was irresistible." After this we find more frequent traces of intercourse between them... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 pages
...resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on taking my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him....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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 494 pages
...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 taking my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1859 - 476 pages
...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 taking my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 356 pages
...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....and fairly laugh it out. Sir, he was irresistible.' Consoled by Foote's misfortunes and ultimate complicated misery for his lessened importance, Bubb Dodington... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 520 pages
...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....and fairly laugh it out. Sir, he was irresistible." Consoled by Foote's misfortunes and ultimate complicated misery for his lessened importance, Bubb Dodington... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 422 pages
...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....sullenly, affecting not to mind him ; but the dog was BO very comical, that 1 was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 pages
...please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting for a long time not to mind him ; but the dog was so very comical...obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back on my chair, and fairly laugh it out with the rest; there was no avoiding it — the fellow was irresistible."... | |
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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... 
