Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" He the best player!" 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. "
The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides ... - Page 257
by James Boswell - 1831
Full view - About this book

Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...; 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 manner, and done just as he did2.' For, when I asked him, ' Would you not, Sir, start as Mr. Garrick does, if you saw a ghost ?'...
Full view - About this book

Tom Jones

Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 566 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1807 - 496 pages
...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...Garrick does, if you saw a ghost? He answered,^"! hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." . MONDAY, AUGUST l6. Dr. William Robertson came to...
Full view - About this book

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.

James Boswell - 1810 - 438 pages
...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...I did, I should frighten the ghost." Monday, 16th August. Dr. William Robertson came to breakfast. We talked of Ogden on Prayer. Dr. Johnson said, "...
Full view - About this book

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - 1813 - 484 pages
...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...not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." MONDAY, AUGUST 1 6. Dr. William Robertson came to breakfast. We talked of Ogden on Prayer. Dr. Johnson said,...
Full view - About this book

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - 1813 - 492 pages
...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 manner, and done just f as he did." For, when I asked him, " Would not you, sir, start as Mr. Garrick does, if you saw a...
Full view - About this book

The history of Tom Jones, a foundling, Volume 3

Henry Fielding - 1820 - 388 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces ..., Volume 21, Part 3

1820 - 394 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is ...

Henry Fielding - 1821 - 846 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The history of Tom Jones

Henry Fielding - 1832 - 438 pages
...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 call it, between him and his mother, where you told me...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF