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" 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,... "
Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt - Page 186
by Samuel Johnson - 1854
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...will fare no better at their hands. After which he goes on thus : " Yes, trust them not ; for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that,...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...
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The London Magazine, Volume 4

1821 - 724 pages
...never more acquaint them with their " admired inventions," he says, " Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in n/i/iii/er's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the beet of you ; and...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Life of Shakespeare. Seven ages ...

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 pages
...Marlowe, Peele, and Lodge, says, " Yes ! trust them not" (the managers of the theatre); " for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that,...in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to hombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare: With a Life, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1828 - 404 pages
...says," Yes I trust them not" (the managers of the theatre) ; " for there is an upstart crow, heautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well ahle to homhast out a hlank verse as the hest of you ; and , heing an ahsolute Johannes Fac-totum,...
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The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare ..., Volume 2

John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 520 pages
...and enviously brought against him, by Robert Greene, in his Groatsworth of Wit, 1592 : — ' There is an upstart crow, ' beautified with our feathers, that...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,...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, with Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 542 pages
...which was published by Chettle subeee, an oge, says, , (the managers of the theatre;) "for there is o von, who, I think hath legs. [Exit MARGARET. Benc. Ana therefore will com wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 103

English essays - 1833 - 614 pages
...and Lodge, &c.) " for there is an upstart Crow beautified with our feathers, that with ' his tigurls heart wrapt in a player's hide/ supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse, as the best of you ; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceite...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...Marlowe, Peele, and Lodge, says, "Yes ! trust them not," (the managers of the theatre;) "for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, •npposes he is as well able to bombast out a Wank •rerse as the best...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 131

English literature - 1871 - 608 pages
...justly so — in his dying hours. Thus in the well-known passage referring to Shakspeare : ' There is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that...hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanJt verse at tla beet of you. Beautified with our feathers means, as he expresses it, to write blank...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 23

English literature - 1838 - 598 pages
...thus of a dramatic writer who had given him and others mortal offence by his success: — 'There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that,...in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombnst out a blank verse as the best of you j and, being an absolute Johanues Faclotnm, is, in his...
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