 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.  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 137by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1889 - 494 pages
...say of Garrick, " Why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if 1 had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did." For, when I asked him, " Would not you, Sir, start as Mr. Garrick does, if you saw a ghost 1" he answered,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1890 - 464 pages
...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...his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why, Lord help me! any man, that is, any good man, that hath such a mother, would have done exactly the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1890 - 1100 pages
...contemptuous sneer ; ' why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should ly to look at the buildings recently erected in London for a proof of our rule. In a bad Th всэпе, as you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so flue, why,... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - Great Britain - 1891 - 384 pages
...' on the occasion of his first visit to the play : — ' I am sure if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner and done just as he did ' — meaning to say that Garrick's impersonations were nothing out of the ordinary run. Charles Churchill... | |
 | Howard Leslie Lunt - English language - 1919 - 152 pages
...Ferrero. 6. "The ear is the pathway, not only to the heart, as the French say, but to the mind." 7. "Why, any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same."— Fielding. 8. "They were my enemies, because they grieved to think me rich, and my oppressors, because... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides - 1924 - 562 pages
...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 manner, and done just as he did.' For, when I asked him, ' Would not you, sir, start as Mr. Garrick does, if you saw a ghost ? ' He answered,... | |
 | George Saintsbury - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 336 pages
...characters and his scenes look commonplace. They feel sure that " if they had seen a ghost they would have looked in the very same manner and done just as he does." They are sure that, in the scene with Gertrude, " Lord, help them! any man — that is any good... | |
 | Aurélien Digeon - 1925 - 282 pages
...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...his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why, Lord help me, any man, that is any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same.... | |
 | John Boynton Priestley - English wit and humor - 1925 - 322 pages
...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...he did. And then, to be sure, in that scene, as you call it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why, Lord help me ! any man,... | |
 | John Boynton Priestley - English wit and humor - 1925 - 320 pages
...in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be sure, in that scene, as you call it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why, Lord help me ! any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the... | |
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