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" Yes, trust them not ! for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his " 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... "
Shakespeare: Text, Subtext, and Context - Page 210
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Shakespeare and His Times

François Guizot - 1855 - 368 pages
...upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his 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 Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in the country."!...
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The English of Shakespeare: Illustrated in a Philological Commentary on His ...

George Lillie Craik - 1857 - 410 pages
...upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his 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 Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." This...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...beautified with out feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is at well able to bombast 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 country.' The...
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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 736 pages
...an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapped in aplayers hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as 1 Chettle acknowledges the important share he had in the publication of " The Groatsworth of Wit,"...
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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 pages
...Groatsworth of Wit," 1592, Greene also objects to Shakespeare on the ground that he thought himself "as well able to bombast out a blank- verse " as the best of his contemporaries. The • In "The History of English Dramatic Poetry and the Stage," Vol. iii. p....
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Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered, Volume 10

John Campbell Baron Campbell - Law in literature - 1859 - 164 pages
...just before spoken of himself as "the man to whom actors had been previously beholding." He goes on " supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of his predecessors/' as "an absolute Johannes Factotum," and " in his own conceit the only SHAKE-SCENE...
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Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered, Volume 10

John Campbell Baron Campbell - Law in literature - 1859 - 164 pages
...been previously beholding." He goes on farther to allude to Shakespeare as one who 2* " supposes lie is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of his predecessors,'' as "an absolute Johannes Factotum," and " in his own conceit the only SHAKE-SCENE...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 2

1860 - 444 pages
...upstart crow, beautified in our feathers, that with his ti/t/er'& ixart wrapped in a player's Jtide,* 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 Shakes-scene in a country."...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 31; Volume 104

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1911 - 890 pages
...' Shake-scene,' the ' Johannes Factotum,' in his own opinion 'the only Shake-scene in a countrie,' who 'supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you.' ' You ' are the dramatic authors to whom Greene is writing, and certainly Greene says that this ' Shake-scene,'...
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Bentley's quarterly review. [with variant title-leaf to vol. 1]., Volume 2

1860 - 634 pages
...Robert Greene warned his fellow-dramatists of ' an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that 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 Shakescene in a country.' Farmer...
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