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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, with Notes, Original ... - Page 10
by William Shakespeare - 1831
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Studies of Shakspere

Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pages
...players are not to be trusted is because their place is supplied by another : " Yes, trust them not ; for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers,...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." ROBERT GREENE has been described by his friend Henry Chettle as a " man of indifferent years, of face...
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The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare - 1868 - 174 pages
...words: 'There is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his " tiger's heart wrapp'd in a player's hide," supposes he is as well able to...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.' Greene here parodies a line, 3 Henry VI. i. 4. 137, borrowed by Shakespeare from ' The True Tragedy...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Pericles. The tempest. The two gentlemen ...

William Shakespeare - 1868 - 538 pages
...not; for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapp'din a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country. Let these apes imitate your past excellence, and never more acquaint them with your admired inventions....
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 45

Henry Allon - Christianity - 1867 - 614 pages
...warns his brethren to beware of ' an upstart crow, 'beautified in our feathers, that with his "Tyger's" heart ' wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is...Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only ' Shake scene in a country.' This allusion was plain enough, and Shakespeare very naturally complained...
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The English of Shakespeare: Illustrated in a Philological Commentary on His ...

George Lillie Craik - 1869 - 418 pages
...[Lucentio] hit the white ; And, being a winner, God give you good night ! anger against the new luminary : " There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...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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Home Pictures of English Poets, for Fireside and Schoolroom

Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...He said, "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...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country ! " While Shakespeare was thus living in London, charming the public, enraging his rivals, and astonishing...
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The English of Shakespeare Illustrated in a Philological ..., Volume 70

George Lillie Craik - 1869 - 374 pages
...won the wager, though you [Lucentio~\ hit the white ; And, being a winner, God give you good night !" is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." Thia would seem to imply, what is otherwise probable enough, that up to this time Shakespeare had chiefly...
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The Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

Edwin Percy Whipple - England - 1869 - 384 pages
...beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you...Factotum, is. in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in the country." Doubtless this charge of adopting and adapting the productions of others includes some...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare: With Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1871 - 544 pages
...England. 3quently to the unhappy author's decease, the riter, addressing his fellow dramatists, Marlowe, bb doubtful against whom this attack was directed, we cannot wonder that Shakspeare should be hurt...
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Nash's Lenten Stuff: Containing, the Description and First Procreation and ...

Thomas Nash - Atlantic herring - 1871 - 150 pages
...from the wing of Learning for the purpose of beautifying himself — " for there is an upstart crow supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank-...own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country."* THOMAS NASH — he who descended from the Nashes in Hertfordshire, and received his education at St....
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