 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 Seiten
...was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased : and ther states than our own. You do not know what a Brahmin...this: every man has aright to utter what he thinks upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out No, Sir, he was irresistible.t He upon one occasion experienced,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Brander Matthews, Laurence Hutton - 1900 - 340 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - 1902 - 506 Seiten
...first time I met him, having no good opinion of the fellow, I \vas 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 ! ' But it is generally admitted... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 Seiten
...caricatured him ; but when he met him at dinner, 'though he was resolved not to be pleased,' 'the dog was so upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out.' Of Foote's later and regular farces, The Minor — an unjustifiable... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 Seiten
...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 2. He upon one occasion experienced,... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1905 - 142 Seiten
...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 fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out." In the presence of Mrs. Malaprop, criticism has to lay down... | |
 | Robert Waters - 1908 - 374 Seiten
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 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 664 Seiten
...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.2 He upon one occasion experienced,... | |
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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... 
