 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, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.  The North American Review - Page 44edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Lisa Hopkins - Drama - 2005 - 226 pages
...feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde [a parody of a line in Henry VI, Part Three], supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and beeing an absolute Johannes fac totum ['John do-it-all', or Jack-of all-trades],... | |
 | Jason Lawrence - History - 2005 - 244 pages
...[First Fruites, sig. 33r]. 20 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': Greenes Groats-worth of Wine (London, 1592), sig. ASV. 21 Florio's description is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 180 pages
...them [actors] 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 Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene... | |
 | Virginia M. Fellows - Fiction - 2006 - 383 pages
...questions were asked. And yet, as "Greene-Bacon"* had intimated in Groatsworth of Wit, he had bragged that 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... | |
 | Jerome Neu - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 304 pages
...1592 in his Groatsworth of Wit: "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, is in his own conceit the only Shakescene... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - Fiction - 2007 - 356 pages
...presumed to turn playwright: 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 [ie, jack-of-all-trades] is in his own conceit... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 pages
...not," he tells the Wits, 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, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene... | |
 | Robert A. Logan - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 276 pages
...saying, "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 fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene... | |
 | 100 pages
..."There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers heart wrapt 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 Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene... | |
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