...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...again as the other. Anybody may see he is an actor." Some Country Cousins XLV Bob Acres in trouble ACRES. By my valour ! then, Sir Lucius, forty yards is...

...done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me ; but, indeed, Madam, though I never was at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before...again as the other. Anybody may see he is an actor * ' (XVI, 5). 1 Fielding is here giving a helping hand to his friend Garrick, who was, at that time,...

...for they are all agreed, that Hamlet is acted by the best player who ever was on the stage." " He is the best player! " cries Partridge, with a contemptuous...as the other. — Anybody may see he is an actor." Thus ended the adventure at the playhouse ; where Partridge had afforded great mirth, not only to Jones...

...agreed, that Hamlet is acted by the best player who ever was on the stage." "He the best player 1" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why,...as the other. — Anybody may see he is an actor." . . . Thus ended the adventure at the playhouse; where Partridge had afforded great mirth, not only...

...done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me; but indeed, madam, though I was never to a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in...again as the other. Anybody may see he is an actor." If the actors in our amateur groups are to draw tributes the equal of this unconscious one to Garrick,...

...barber-schoolmaster Partridge — Tom's Sancho Panza — who, when they took him to see Mr. Garrick as Hamlet, said : "Why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure,...as the other. — Anybody may see he is an actor." Out of the shadows of their far time they move to us. Into the sunlight of our relishing favor and...

...looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did . . . the king for my money; he speaks all the words distinctly, half as loud again as the other. Anybody may see he is an actor'". Fielding of course was ridiculing an old-fashioned, 'ham' style of acting, which was perhaps ultimately...

...ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner and done just as he did ... [but] the King ... speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other. Anybody may see he is an actor.' Fielding's irony deftly points to the distinction between artifice and nature as Garrick's audience...

...illusion is complete. Accordingly, when asked which actor he prefers, Partridge champions Claudius: 'I have seen acting before in the country; and the...again as the other. - Anybody may see he is an actor.' 63 Partridge regards what he sees as natural behaviour with contempt, taking pleasure in an old-fashioned,...

...seen acting before in the country, and the King for my money; he speaks all his words distinctly, and half as loud again as the other. Anybody may see he is an actor.' " In this excellent passage Partridge is represented as a very bad theatrical critic. But none of those...