 I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.  Tom Jones - Page 382by Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Henry Fielding - 1926 - 350 pages
...distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person." "Why, who," cries Jones, "dost thou take to be such a coward here besides...but if that little man there upon the stage is not frightned, I never saw any man frightned in my life. Ay, ay; go along with you! Ay, to be sure! Who's... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person." " Why, who," cries he saw the helmet and the plume, She look'd down to Camelot. Out f " Na, you may call me coward if you will; but if that little man there upon the stage is not frightened,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Fiction - 1983 - 1028 pages
...Distance, and in so much Company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only Person.' 'Why, who,' cries Jones, 'dost thou take to be such a Coward here besides...may call me Coward if you will; but if that little Man1 there upon the Stage is not frightned, I never saw any Man frightned in my Life. Ay, ay ; go along... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Fiction - 1992 - 770 pages
...and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.' - 'Why, who,' cries Jones, 'dost thou take to be such a coward here besides...'Nay, you may call me coward if you will; but if that litde man there upon the stage is not frightened, I never saw any man frightened in my life. Ay, ay:... | |
 | Anthony Dawson - Drama - 1995 - 276 pages
...Partridge justifies himself by retorting, 'if that little man there [Garrick was exceptionally small] ... is not frightened, I never saw any man frightened in my life'; and yet upon being asked, after the play is over, which actor he preferred, Partridge unhesitatingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 324 pages
...famous for his stylized 'start' at the first encounter: as Partridge in Fielding's Tom Jones put it, 'if that little man there upon the stage is not frightened, I never saw any man frightened in my life' (Bk. xvI, ch. 5). The business of knocking over a chair at the Ghost's appearance in the closet scene... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Philosophy - 2005 - 553 pages
...and in so much company; and yet, if I was frightened, I am not the only person.'—* Why, who,' cries Jones, ' dost thou take to be such a coward here besides thyself? ' — ' Nay, you may call me a coward if you will; but if that little man there upon the stage is not frightened, I never saw any... | |
 | Marvin W. Hunt - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 272 pages
...company of dullard Partridge, who is completely taken in by Garrick's reaction to the Ghost."Nay, you can call me coward if you will; but if that little man...frightened, I never saw any man frightened in my life." By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. F-icurc 415 Bdnntnd Kc.m (1787—1833) l-'ollowiiii;... | |
 | American essays - 1869 - 806 pages
...was frightened, I was not the only person." " Why, who," asks Jones, " dost thou take to be so great a coward here besides thyself?" "Nay, you may call...there upon the stage is not frightened, I never saw a man frightened in my life ! " And when told the " little man " was Garrick, and the best living actor,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1828 - 802 pages
...cries Joños, ' dost thou .lake to be such a coward herebfisides thyself?' — ' Nay, you may call me a coward if you will ; but if that little man there upon the stage is not frightened, I never saw any nmn frightened in my life.' .... He sat with his eves fixed partly on the ghost and partly on Hamlet,... | |
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