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" ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country. "
The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely New ... - Page cxxxi
by William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844
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The Sylvan Wanderer;: Consisting of a Series of Moral ..., Volumes 1-2

Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...his tyger's head, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse, as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes...his own conceit the only Shake-scene* in a country! Oh, that I might intreat your rare wits to be employed in more profitable > courses: and let these...
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...not ; for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that, with his 'tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide,' supposes he is as well able to...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." Here the spiteful fling at Shakespeare is unmistakable, and nobody questions that he is the " Shake-scene...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...his tygres heart wrapt in a player s hide, supposes hee is as well able to bombaste out a blank verse as the best of you ; and being an absolute JOHANNES...FAC-TOTUM, is in his own conceit the only SHAKE-SCENE in a countrey." (j To Mr. Tyrwhit we are indebted for the first application of this * In bis Apology for...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Life of Shakespeare. Seven ages ...

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 pages
...his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to hombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." As it could not be doubtful against whom this attack was directed, we cannot wonder that Shakspeare...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." As it could not be doubtful against whom this attack was directed, we cannot wonder that Shakspeare...
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The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare ..., Volume 2

John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 520 pages
...— ' There is an upstart crow, ' beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's ' heart wrapt in a player's hide supposes he is as well • able...is, ' in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a coun' try.' Here the words ' upstart crow beautified with our feathers,' clearly mean that Shakespeare,...
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The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare ..., Volume 2

John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 506 pages
...— ' There is an upstart crow, ' beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's • heart wrapt in a player's hide supposes he is as well * able to...you ; and being an absolute Johannes Fac-totum^ is, 1 in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a coun' try.' Here the words ' upstart crow beautified...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, with Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 542 pages
...tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse l I deserve, — I mean, in singing ; hut As it could not be doubtful against whom this attack was directed, we cannot wonder that Shakspoare...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 50

Literature - 1861 - 676 pages
...tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you, and being an absolute Johannes...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country ?" Was not Sliakspeare then being classed, carelessly and blindly, with all the rest of the Blackfriars...
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Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on ...

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...his tygres heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes hee is as well able to bombaste out a blank verse lts, countrey." To Mr. Tyrwhit we are indebted for the first application of this passage to Shakspeare,...
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