 | Electronic journals - 1872 - 592 pages
...novelist : — "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." The line in italics is a parody of one in 3 Henry VI. I. 4:— " O ! tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 590 pages
...shall, were ye in that case that I am now, be both of them at once forsaken ? Yes, trust them not ; for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country' We shall have occasion to examine into the meaning of Greene's charge presently. From this passage,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 622 pages
...case that I am now, be both of them at once forsaken ? Yes, trust them not ; for there is an tipstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.' We shall have occasion to examine into the meaning of Greene's charge presently. From this passage,... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1874 - 434 pages
...inferior." Then follows this passage, which is usually thought by critics to refer to Shakespeare: " There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." From which curious criticism we may infer that even in those early times jealousy among dramatic authors... | |
 | William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 508 pages
...assailed in particular one "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 Shakescene in a country." It is unnecessary to suppose that this bitter outburst, the best of all testimonies to Shakespeare's... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...dramatist and novelist, indulged in the following disparaging criticism in reference to Shakspeare : — as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." The line in italics is a parody of one in 3 Henry VI., i. 4: — " 0 ! tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 682 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,...absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the ouly Shakscene in a country." Amongst the most remarkable dramatic contemporaries of Shakespeare, or... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...crow beautified with our feathers that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes that he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as...his own conceit the only shake-scene in a country." The expression " tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide " is a parody upon a well known line in Henry... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...and novelist, indulged in the following disparaging criticism in reference to Shakspeare:- — • as Well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country/' The line in italics is a parody of one in 3 Henry VI. , i. 4: — "0! tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1875 - 664 pages
...in writing ' as well as to the moral probity of Shakspere, as reported to him on high authority '. able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.' The bearing of this passage on the question of the authorship of certain plays will be briefly adverted... | |
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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. 
