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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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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 1-3

Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...his tigre's heart wrapped in a player's hide, suppose that he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you ; and being an absolute Johannes...his own conceit the only Shakescene in a country." Weare told that Shakspere felt keenly the spiteful insinuation, and expressed somehow or another his...
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The English of Shakespeare: Illustrated in a Philological Commentary on His ...

George Lillie Craik - 1857 - 410 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." This would seem to imply, what is otherwise probable enough, that up to this time Shakespeare had chiefly...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1

1864 - 492 pages
...feathers, that with his Tyres \earl 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, is in his own conceit the only shake-scene in a country " — Shakspere claimed...
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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 736 pages
...Shakespeare (not by name) for having been instrumental in the publication of Greene's attack upon him. the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum,...his own conceit the only Shakescene in a country." (Dyce's Edit, of Greene's Works, I. Ixxxi.) In this extract, although Greene talks of "an upstart crow...
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Shakespeare and His Birthplace: Containing a Biography of the Poet, and a ...

Thomas Nelson Publishers - Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1859 - 166 pages
...his Tygre's heart, wrapt in a players hyde, 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." This is obviously levelled at Shakespeare, under the play upon his name of Shake-scene. The words "...
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Bentley's quarterly review. [with variant title-leaf to vol. 1]., Volume 2

1860 - 634 pages
...of ' an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you : and being an absolute...country.' Farmer was a collector of these hitherto incousidered feathers, and with them lined a mare's nest. When carefully examined, his pretensions...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 2

1860 - 444 pages
...that with his ti/t/er'& ixart wrapped in a player's Jtide,* 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 Shakes-scene in a country." In this passage we have evidence that in 1592 Shakespere, the " upstart,"...
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Chamber's household edition of the dramatic works of ..., Part 26, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1861 - 410 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...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.' The term' Shake-scene,' conspicuously 1 Mr Collier has published a paper found in Lord Ellesmere's...
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The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 164 pages
...feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a players 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 passage mimics a line from 3 Henry VI (hence the play must have been performed before Greene wrote)...
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 132 pages
...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...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country. The passage mimics a line from 3 Henry VI (hence the play must have been performed before Greene wrote)...
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