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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 factotum... "
The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare: And ... - Page 436
by John Payne Collier - 1831
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1872 - 592 pages
...well-known disparaging criticism by Robert Greene, the Elizabethan dramatist, poet, and 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 bombast out a blank verse as the best...
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A Manual of English Literature: A Text Book for Schools and Colleges

John Seely Hart - English literature - 1872 - 650 pages
...lM'i1, become an object ol envy to lees successful osplmnte : " There is an upstart crow beau fined with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, [a parody on Shakespeare's line, in Henry VI., Part Third, ' О tiger's heart wrapt in a ipomnn's hide,']...
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

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 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...
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A First Sketch of English Literature

Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...shall, were ye in that case that I am now, be both of them at once forsaken ? Yea, 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...
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Works, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1874 - 578 pages
...so Eclipst his fame, Purloynde his Plumes, con they deny the same ? " * " Yes. trust them not : for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygrgs hart wrapt in a player's hyde, supposes hee is as well able tu bombast out a blanlcc verso as...
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The National quarterly review, ed. by E.I. Sears

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, 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...
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The Athenaeum

England - 1874 - 898 pages
...shall were yee 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 feathers, that, with his Tygres heart wrapt in a players hyde, supposes hee is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as...
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A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne, Volume 1

Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1875 - 664 pages
...Groatstoorth of Wit (which, to whomsoever it was addressed, appeared after Greene's death in 1 =,9a): 'There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well CONTEMPORARY OPINION ON SHAKSPERE. 275 A second dramatist who had been the means of giving the charge...
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Eminent English writers

William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...after Greene's death, occurs the following passage addressed to some of his fellow writers : — " There is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers...his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes that he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes...
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...fellow playwrights, Greene warns both generally and specifically: . . . trust them [actors] 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...
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