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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 Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, with Notes, Original ... - Page 10
by William Shakespeare - 1831
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Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth ..., Volume 2

Henry Hallam - Europe - 1864 - 488 pages
...(the players) not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his tyger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as...Johannes factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shatoscene in a country." An allusion is here manifest to the " tyger's heart, wrapt in a woman's hide,"...
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History of William Shakespeare, Player and Poet: With New Facts and Traditions

Stephen Watson Fullom - Dramatists, English - 1864 - 394 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...Johannes Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit, the only S/iuA«-sceue in a country." afforded by ' Kind Heart's Dream,' to declare in the preface that the...
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The English of Shakespeare Illustrated in a Philological Commentary on His ...

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1864 - 406 pages
...won the wager, though you [Lucentio~\ hit the white; And, being a winner, God give you good night!" is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." This would seem to imply, what is otherwise probable enough, that up to this time Shakespeare had chiefly...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 29

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1864 - 852 pages
..." an upstart crow, beautified in our feathers, that with his tyi/er's heart wrapped in a /i/ni/er's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a...Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shuke-iseciie ill a country." This shows that in 1Г>!12 our poet was of sufficient consequence to...
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John Cassell's illustrated history of England. The text, to the ..., Volume 3

Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 pages
...produced amongst inferior dramatic writers, we have an amusing specimen in the words of Robert Greene : " There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shakscene in a country." Amongst the most remarkable dramatic contemporaries of Shakespeare, or those...
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Shakspere: His Inner Life as Intimated in His Works

John Abraham Heraud - 1865 - 548 pages
...of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance. He characterises him as " an upstart crow, beautified in our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped...Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shakes-scene in a country." But this passage affords proof that at this time Shakspcre was a successful...
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The National Quarterly Review, Volumes 11-12

1865 - 838 pages
...beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wj-apt in a player1 1 hide, Supposes he is at well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best...Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only SBAKESCENE in a country."* It will be admitted that this is as contemptuous and disrespectful as anything...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20

American essays - 1867 - 1052 pages
...beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you...Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in the country." Doubtless this charge of adopting and adapting the productions of others includes some...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20

American essays - 1867 - 784 pages
...beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as able to bombast out .a blank verse as the best of...Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in the country." Doubtless this charge of adopting and adapting the productions of others includes some...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 5; Volume 68

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...beautified in our feathers, that with his 'Tyger's' heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best...Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake scene in a country." This allusion was plain enough, and Shakespeare very naturally complained...
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