 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. - Page 71by James Boswell - 1820Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1854 - 568 pages
...no good opinion of the fellow,' he said, describing the incident long long afterwards to Boswell, ' I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very...dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay <lown my knife and fork, throw myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible.'... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 pages
...Having no good opinion of the fellow," he said, describing the incident long afterwards to Boswell, " 1 was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went oa eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Dramatists, English - 1856 - 414 pages
...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...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 - Great Britain - 1858 - 486 pages
...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...to lay down my knife and " fork, throw myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it " out. No, Sir, he was irresistible." After this we find more frequent... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1859 - 476 pages
...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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1858 - 470 pages
...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... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 356 pages
...but even he owned himself vanquished. ' The first time I was in Foote's company 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.' Consoled by Foote's misfortunes and... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Great Britain - 1861 - 520 pages
...but even he owned himself vanquished. " The first time I was in Foote's company 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." Consoled by Foote's misfortunes and... | |
 | John Timbs - Humorists, English - 1862 - 422 pages
...Boswell's popular Life. Johnson : The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved...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 - Great Britain - 1863 - 826 pages
...fellow." " The first time," said the doctor on another occasion, " I ever was in company with Foote, I was resolved not to be pleased — and it is very...went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting for a long time not to mind him ; but the dog was so very comical that I was obliged to lay down my... | |
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