| William Shakespeare - 1877 - 444 pagina’s
...Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer ; ' why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner and done just as he did. And then, to be sure, in that scene, as you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me... | |
| William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 pagina’s
...or an old woman, and made them laugh till the tears ran down their cheeks. — Macaulay. Boswell : " Would not you, sir, start as Mr. Garrick does, if you saw a ghost ?" Johnson : " I hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." — David Garrick. 241 Colonel Pennington... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 514 pagina’s
...said Partridge with a contemptuous sneer. " Why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did." —Tom Jones, book xvi. c. 5. He had defended a gentleman of rank and fortune against a charge of an... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 514 pagina’s
...said Partridge with a contemptuous sneer. "Why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had -seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did." — Tom Jones, book xvi. c. 5. He had defended a gentleman of rank and fortune against a charge of... | |
| Henry Fielding - 1872 - 748 pagina’s
...Partridge with a contemptuous sneer ; ' why, I could act as well as ho myself. I am sure, if 1 had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as ho did. And then, to be sure, in that scene, as you call it, between him and his mother, where you... | |
| Samuel Penniman Bates - 1873 - 398 pagina’s
...cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; ' why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be sure, in that scene, as you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me... | |
| 1915 - 826 pagina’s
...day in Hamlet: — " He the best player! Why I could act as well as he myself ! I am sure if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. . . . The king for my money : he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other.... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pagina’s
...cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "Why, I could act as well as ho myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to bo sure, in that scene, as you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me... | |
| Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 pagina’s
...Jones," who makes Partridge say of Garrick, " Why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same...answered, " I hope not. If I did I should frighten the ghost."—Boswell. Mr. Ogilvie was unlucky enough to choose for the topic of his conversation the praises... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pagina’s
...cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be sure, in that scene, as you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me... | |
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