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" Gibber thought the new player " well enough," but Foote, with the malice that was natural to him, remarked, " Yes, the hound has something clever, but if his excellence was to be examined, he would not be found in any part equal to Colley Gibber's Sir... "
Memoirs of His Own Life - Page 23
by Tate Wilkinson - 1790
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Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to ..., Volume 3

John Genest - 1832 - 668 pages
...Tragic parts, Gibber was always so. Foote used to say of Garrick — " yes, the hound " has something clever, but if his excellence was to " be examined,...he would not be found in any part " equal to Colley Gibber's Sir John Brute, Lord " Foppington, Sir Courtly Nice, or Justice Shallow" — (Wilkinson) —...
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"Their Majesties' Servants": Annals of the English Stage from Thomas ...

John Doran - 1865 - 486 pages
...enough," but Foote, with the malice that was natural to him, remarked, " Yes, the hound has something clever, but if his excellence was to be examined,...John Brute, Lord Foppington, Sir Courtly Nice, or Justice Shallow." " His reception" says the Daily Post, " was the most extraordinary and great that...
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"Their Majesties' Servants.": Annals of the English Stage, from ..., Volume 2

Dr. Doran (John) - 1865 - 446 pages
...enough," but Foote, with the malice that Mas natural to him, remarked, " Yes, the hound has something clever, but if his excellence was to be examined, he would not be found in any part equal to Colley Cibbcr's Sir John Brute, Lord Foppington, Sir Courtly Nice, or Justice Shallow." This was said, not...
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"Their Majesties' Servants.": Annals of the English Stage, from ..., Volume 2

Dr. Doran (John) - 1865 - 442 pages
...enough," but Foote, with the malice that was natural to him, remarked, " Yes, the hound has something clever, but if his excellence was to be examined, he would not be found in any part equal to Colley Gibber's Sir John Brute, Lord Foppington, Sir Courtly Nice, or Justice Shallow." This was said, not...
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"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage: From ..., Volume 2

Dr. Doran (John) - 1888 - 500 pages
...enough," but Foote, with the malice that was natural to him, remarked, "Yes, the hound has something clever, but if his excellence was to be examined, he would not be found in any part equal to Colley Gibber's Sir John Brute, Lord Foppington, Sir Courtly Nice, or Justice Shallow." This was said, not...
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Samuel Foote: A Biography

Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1910 - 404 pages
...over ; or, if obliged to give his sentiments, would conclude with, ' Yes, the hound had a something clever ; but if his excellence was to be examined, he would not be found in any part equal to Colley Gibber's Sir John Brute, Lord Foppington, Sir Courtly Nice, or Justice Shallow.' . . . " But Justice...
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