 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 Retrospective Review.. - Page 84edited by - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 360 pages
...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, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." It is due alike to Chettle and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 280 pages
...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 fac totum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.' The reference to Shakspeare in this passage is unmistakeable... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1855 - 482 pages
...beautified with, our 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 Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit the only SHAKESCENE in a country." " The absolute Johannes Factotum,"... | |
 | François Guizot - 1855 - 368 pages
...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 in the country."! These passages leave no doubt... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1857 - 410 pages
...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 in a country." This would seem to imply, what... | |
 | 1860 - 444 pages
...in our feathers, 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... | |
 | 1860 - 634 pages
...his fellow-dramatists 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 Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shakescene in a country.' Farmer was a collector of these... | |
 | 1860 - 632 pages
...of' an upstart crow, b^airtined tritk cur feather*, that supposes he is as well able to bombast oat a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shakescene in a country.' Farmer was a collector of these... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1911 - 890 pages
...Johannes Factotum,' in his own opinion 'the only Shake-scene in a countrie,' who 'supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you.' ' You ' are the dramatic authors to whom Greene is writing, and certainly Greene says that this ' Shake-scene,'... | |
 | 1860 - 880 pages
...our feathers, that with In- tvger'e heart ivrapped in a player's hide,* supposes he is as • well able. to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you, aud being amabiolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only SJtakes-seene in; a country."... | |
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