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" Yes, trust them 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 bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum,... "
Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of ... - Page 346
by E. H. Seymour - 1805
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Shakespeare [sic] and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ...

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1843 - 970 pages
...feathers, that with 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 countrcy." To Mr. Tyrwhit we are indebted...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 14

United States - 1844 - 671 pages
..." There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart, wrapped up in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to...blank verse as the best of you ! and being an absolute John Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only shake-scene in a country." Poor Greene, and his brother...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science ..., Volume 14; Volume 77

American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...Shakspeare : " 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. " Beautified with our feathers means, as he expresses it, to write blank verse, and imitate the rules...
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...not ; for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tigers heart wrapp'd 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 Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...not ; for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tigers 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 Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...Groatsworth of Wit," 159 '2, 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 fiict is, that in this respect, as in all others, Greene was much inferior...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 pages
...not; for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapp'din 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 Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit,...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...¡win.' : — ' For there is an upstart crow beautified »ith our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bomlast out a blank verse as the best of yon ; and being an absolute Johannes Fac-totum, is, in his...
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Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With ...

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...others, although * " There is an upstart crow, beautified with pur feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able...the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." — Greene'* Groatsworth of Wit,...
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The Dramatic Authors of America

James Rees - American drama - 1845 - 154 pages
...Avon's bard : " 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 bombast out blank verse as the best of you ; and being an absolute Johannes Fae-tolum, is in his own conceit, the...
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