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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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Shakspere-Lexikon [Shakespeare-Lexikon]

Nikolaus Delius - 1852 - 532 pages
...his tigers heart wrapped in a player's Aide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank-verse as the best of you : and being an absolute Johannes...his own conceit the only Shakescene in a country. — î)ajj unfer Dichter berjenige mar, bfffen uberwiegenbem (Sinfluffe auf bie 33uf)ne ber in (Slenb...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pages
...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...his own conceit the only Shake-scene 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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The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered ...

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 pages
...that with his tigers heart, wrapped in a playeras ?¿ide í supposes he is as well able to bombast out iam countrey." (Dyce's Edit, of Greene's Works, I. Ixxxi.) In this extract, although Greene talks of "an...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ¡ and being »n absolute Johannes Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.' The panning allusion to Shakspeare is palpable : the «•^pressions, ' tiger's heart,' &c. are a parody...
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The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 476 pages
...heart, wrapp'd in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the oest of you ; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own coneeit the only Rhakescene in a country." (Dyce's Edit, of Greene's Works, I. Ixxxi.) In this extract,...
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Flowers for All Seasons

John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 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." In 1593 then appeared, in all likelihood, the first composition which was wholly his. He died in 1616,...
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 360 pages
...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...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." It is due alike to Chettle and to Shakspeare to add that, in a subsequent pamphlet, the former thus...
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The North American Review, Volume 78

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 578 pages
...those " puppets that speak from our mouths, those anticks garnished in our feathers " ; and who, " being an absolute Johannes Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." The charge of plagiarism that is here insinuated is simply absurd ; for Shakespeare gave away his own...
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Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1855 - 482 pages
...feathers, that with his tyger'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 SHAKESCENE in a country." " The absolute Johannes Factotum," " the only shake-scene," and "the crow beautified with their feathers,"...
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The Poems of William Shakespear

William Shakespeare - 1855 - 280 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 Johannes fac totum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.' The reference to Shakspeare...
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