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Quotation from The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
“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 History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book XVI, Chapter v (Project Gutenberg #6593)
After seeing Garrick play Hamlet, Partridge scorns the performance as no acting at all, the novel's best joke about art and nature.
Citation: "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." — Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book XVI, Chapter v (Project Gutenberg #6593). (id fielding-tom-jones-q7)
Portrait: Henry Fielding, Unknown engraver, Public domain.
