 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1874 - 992 pages
...Fiuherbert's. ' H-iving no good opinion of the fellow,' says he, ' 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 preity sullenly, affecting not to mind him, but the dog was so very comical, that 1 was obliged to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1874 - 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... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...was at Fitzhcrbert'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." On another occasion he thus contrasts him with Garrick : " Garrick, sir, has some delicacy of feeling... | |
 | 1876 - 844 pages
...at a dinner. " Having no good opinion of the fellow," he said, " I was resolved not to be pleased. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting...knife and fork, throw myself back in my chair, and laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible." This most unscrupulous of mimics and satirists was himself... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1876 - 828 pages
...at a dinner. " Having no good opinion of the fellow," he said, " I was resolved not to be pleased. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting...knife and fork, throw myself back in my chair, and laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible." This most unscrupulous of mimics and satirists was himself... | |
 | John Diprose - 1877 - 308 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." On another occasion, he thus contrasts him with Garrick : — " Garrick, sir, has some delicacy of... | |
 | Henry Barton Baker - 1878 - 428 pages
...him at dinner. " Having no good opinion of the fellow," he said, " I was resolved not to be pleased. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting...knife and fork, throw myself back in my chair, and laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible." It is strange that while all the other English humourists... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 296 pages
...The doctor assumed his most ursine (bear-like) manner, but it was no use, "I was obliged," he says, " to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back in...and fairly laugh it out. Sir, he was irresistible." s CJiarles Matthena, born in 1776, a celebrated comedian. Matthews was a wonderful master of personification... | |
 | Henry Barton Baker - 1881 - 482 pages
...at a dinner. ' Having no good opinion of the fellow,' he said, ' I was resolved not to be pleased. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog wa& so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back in my chair,... | |
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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... 
