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" 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 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 26
by James Boswell - 1807 - 460 pages
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A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading ...

Brainerd Kellogg - 1883 - 492 pages
...History, Biography, and Travels. 233 "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 seeu a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be...
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The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the ..., Volume 5

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 472 pages
...player who ever was on the stage. ' ' "He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "Why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure...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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A Hand-book of English and American Literature: Historical and Critical ...

Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...player * who ever was on the stage." " He the best player!" cried Partridge with a contemptuous sneer. " Why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if...looked in the very same manner and done just as he did."—From Tom Jonet. JOSEPH WARTON. He who wishes to know whether he has a true taste for poetry...
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Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay

George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 pages
...who was ever on the stage." — " He the best player ! " cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer ; "Why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure...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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Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay

George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 pages
...who was ever on the stage." — " He the best player ! " cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer ; "Why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure...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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Complete Rhetoric

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 368 pages
...player who ever was on the stage.' 'He the best player!' cried Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; 'why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure...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 hi? mother, where you told me...
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The History of Henry Fielding, Volume 2

Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - 506 pages
...opinion, repeated by Mrs. Miller, Partridge retorted with a sneer of contempt: "He the best player ! . . . Why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if...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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The History of Henry Fielding, Volume 2

Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - 496 pages
...opinion, repeated by Mrs. Miller, Partridge retorted with a sneer of contempt: "He the best player ! . . . Why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if...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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The English Novel

George Saintsbury - 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...
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Fools and Philosophers: A Gallery of Comic Figures from English Literature

John Boynton Priestley - 1925 - 320 pages
...ever was on the stage." — " He the best player ! " cries Partridge with a contemptuous sneer ; " why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure,...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...
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