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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,... "
Bentley's Quarterly Review - Page 48
1860
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Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great ..., Volume 2

Samuel Astley Dunham - Authors, English - 1837 - 418 pages
...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 John Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only shake-scene in a country. Oh that I might entreat your...
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Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on ...

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 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 countrey." To Mr. Tyrwhit we are indebted for the first application of this passage...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Life. New facts regarding the life ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 608 pages
...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...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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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 554 pages
...feathers, that, with his tygre's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes 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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...feathers, that, with his tygre's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes 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...
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Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 472 pages
...that with his tyger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast f out a blank verse as the best of you, and being an absolute...his own conceit the only SHAKESCENE in a country." " The absolute Johannes Factotum," " the only shake-scene," and "the crow beautified with their feathers,"...
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Knight's Store of Knowledge for All Readers: Being a Collection of Treatises ...

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1841 - 440 pages
...that, with Ai* tiger t heart wrapped in a player't hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank- verse as the best of you : and, being an...his own conceit the only Shakescene in a country." There can be no doubt that Shakspere was here pointed at; that the starving man spoke with exceeding...
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Amenities of literature, sketches and characters of English literature, Volume 3

Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 436 pages
...that with his tyger's heart wrapt in a player s hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast t out a blank verse as the best of you, and being an absolute...his own conceit, the only SHAKESCENE in a country." "The absolute Johannes Factotum," "the only shake-scene," and "the crow beautified with their feathers,"...
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Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1842 - 360 pages
...that with his tygcr'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...his own conceit, the only SHAKE-SCENE in a country." "The absolute Johannes Factotum," "the only shakescene," and "the crow beautified with their feathers,"...
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Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth ..., Volume 1

Henry Hallam - European literature - 1842 - 428 pages
...in any of his plays that could be mistaken for Shakspeare's. His Edward I. is a gross 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-tctne in a country." An allusion is here manifest to the " tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's...
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