 ... 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. I know you are only joking with me; but indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London,...  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Página 361por Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott - 1831Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Anthony Dawson - 1995 - 276 páginas
...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... | |
 | Amal Asfour, Dr Paul Williamson, Paul Williamson - 1999 - 360 páginas
...which actor he prefers, Partridge champions Claudius: 'I have seen acting before in the country; and the king for my money; he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other. - Anybody may see he is an actor.' 63 Partridge regards what he sees as natural behaviour with contempt,... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2003 - 494 páginas
...if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and had done just as he did — the King for my money; he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the others - anybody may see he's an actor.' Garrick's attitude to Shakespeare's texts was ambivalent.... | |
 | Jenny Davidson - 2004 - 256 páginas
...indeed, Madam, though I was never at a Play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the Country; and the King for my Money; he speaks all his Words distinctly,...loud again as the other. - Any Body may see he is an Actor.40 It is unlikely that real-world hypocrites will over-act as conspicuously as the metaphor suggests,... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 488 páginas
...indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the country, and the king for my money : he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other. Anybody may see he is an actor." Henry Fielding, XLVIII. ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE XVI. CENTURY* IN... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1828 - 802 páginas
...acting before in the country, and tile King for my money ; he speaks ail his words distinctly, and half as loud again as the other. Any body may see he is an actor." in this excellent passage, Partridge is represented as a very bad theatrical critic. But none of those... | |
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