 | Demosthenes - Oratory, Ancient - 1864 - 266 pages
...passage to me after the publication of my Second Edition. "The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the...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 to lay down my knife... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pages
...restraints from which Foote is free. The first time ,1 was in company with Foote was at Filzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved...will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so veiy comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife... | |
 | William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 550 pages
...hops on one leg, Foote can hop on one leg." — Macaulay. The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the...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 to lay down my knife... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Great Britain - 1871 - 572 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 32 sullenly, affecting not to mind him; but the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1872 - 776 pages
...nevertheless had an antipathy to him. " The first time (he said) I ever was in company with Foote, was at Mr. Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow,...will, I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting for a long time not to mind him :" [only fancy Johnson's face when he was sullen!] "but the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1873 - 486 pages
...the sage at once declared 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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...Garrick's wit is more like Lord Cbitcrfield'«.' JOHNSON: 'The first time I »11 in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was rt*.hol not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult t" please a man against his will. I went o» eating... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
..."Garrick's wit is more like Lord Chesterfield's."—JOHNSON : 'The first time I was in company with Foote, was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the...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 to lay down my knife... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
..."Garrick's wit is more like Lord Chesterfield's."—JOHNSON : ' The first time I was in company with Foote, was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the...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 to lay down my knife... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...Garrick's wit is more like Lord Chesterfield's." JOHNSON. " The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the...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 to lay down my knife... | |
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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... 
