... 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. English Prose: Selections - Page 563edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 410 pages
...hee is well able to bombaste out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Joannes factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shakescene in a country.' — ' O tyger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide !' is a line in the old quarto play entitled The First... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1828 - 404 pages
...supposes he is as well ahle to homhast out a hlank verse as the hest of you ; and , heing an ahsolute Johannes Fac-totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." As it could not he douhtful against whom this attack was directed, we cannot wonder that Shakspeare... | |
| John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 520 pages
...peevishly and enviously brought against him, by Robert Greene, in his Groatsworth of Wit, 1592 : — ' There is an upstart crow, ' beautified with our feathers,...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,... | |
| 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... | |
| English essays - 1833 - 614 pages
...tigurls heart wrapt in a player's hide/ supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse, as the best of you ; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceite the onely Shake scent in a countrey." Mr. Dyce observes, that Shakspeare thus excited the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 556 pages
...hee is well able to bombaste out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Joannes factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shakescene in a country." — " O tyger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide ! " is a line in the old quarto play entitled The First... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 W Shake— scene in a countrey." To Mr. Tyrwhit we are indebted for the first application of this passage... | |
| Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 542 pages
...tyger'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 Shakescene in a country." An allusion is here manifest to the " tyger's heart, wrapt in a woman's hide," which Shakspeare borrowed... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 608 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." As it could not be doubtful against whom this attack was directed, we cannot wonder that Shakspeare... | |
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