 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1889 - 358 pages
...Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of him, 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 partly sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical that I... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 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, t He upon one 276 [1776. E occasion... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1890 - 274 pages
...was at Fitz herbert'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 so verj comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back in my chair, and... | |
 | 1890 - 1208 pages
...** f itzherbert's, and assumed his most ursine manner; but it was no use: "I was obliged," he says, "to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back...and fairly laugh it out. Sir, he was irresistible." His plays, four of the best ol which arc An Auction of Picture*; The Minor; The Liar; and The Mayor... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1890 - 282 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 eating my dinner pretty 2— 16 23'i Churchill ami 'the Rosciad' sullenly, aff'ecting not to mind him ; but the dog was so... | |
 | 1891 - 780 pages
...says, 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. Oh, sir, he was irresistible ! Ha upon one occasion experienced... | |
 | Sir Claude Phillips - 1894 - 474 pages
...common at that time : " 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....myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible." Reynolds himself is credited — on what authority does not appear —... | |
 | Samuel Foote - 1894 - 252 pages
...fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. l went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting...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,... | |
 | 1897 - 814 pages
...at Fitzherbert's, and assumed his most ursine manner; but to no effect: ' 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.' His plays, four of the best of which are An Auction of Picture*, The Minor, The Liar, and The Mayor... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 958 pages
...at Fitznerbert's, and assumed his most ursine manner; but it was no use: "I was obliged," he says, "to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back...and fairly laugh it out. Sir, he was irresistible. " His plays, four of the best of which are An Auction of Pictures; The Minor; The Liar; and The Mayor... | |
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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... 
