 | James Boswell - 1887 - 492 pages
...restraints from which Foote is free3.' WILKES. ' Garrick's wit is more like Lord Chesterfield's.' JOHNSON. 'The first time I was in company with Foote was at...and it is very difficult to please a man against his will4. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very... | |
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 pages
...restraints from which Foote is free.' " Wilkes. Garrick's wit is more like Lord Chesterfield's. "Johnson. The first time I was in company with Foote was at...opinion of the fellow I was resolved not to be pleased. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 pages
...veneration or contempt. Many of those who have determined with great 1 " The first time (said Johnson) I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's....and it is very difficult to please a man against his w1ll. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 578 pages
...restraints from which Foote is free." WILKES. " Garrick's wit is more like Lord Chesterfield's." JOHNSON. " The first time I was in company with Foote was at...I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very 1 Johnson's London, a Poem, v. 145. difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1889 - 358 pages
...Dilly's called him a Merry Andrew, a buffoon, Johnson at once declared that lie had wit ; and added : " The first time I was in company with 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.... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1890 - 274 pages
...even he owned himself vanquished. ' The first time I was in Foote's company was at Fitz herbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved...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... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1890 - 282 pages
...horror of buffoons ; 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Foote - 1894 - 252 pages
...literature," could not resist him. "The first ti in company with Foote was at Fitz I was erbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved...is very difficult to please a man against his will. l went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 pages
...Dryden to be above the reach of human abilities.' The Rambler, No. 93. Johnson said of Foote : — ' Having no good opinion of the fellow I was resolved...very difficult to please a man against his will.' Boswell's_/0^«j0«, iii. 69. ' It is seldom anything practically convinces a man that does not please... | |
 | James Boswell - 1911 - 644 pages
...restraints from which Foote is free." WILKES. " Garrick's wit is more like Lord Chesterfield's." JOHNSON. "The first time I was in company with Foote was at...difficult to please a man against his will. I went oi> eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that... | |
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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 not... 
