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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... "
The Atlantic Monthly - Page 109
1867
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John Cassell's illustrated history of England. The text, to the ..., Volume 3

Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 pages
...produced amongst inferior dramatic writers, we have an amusing specimen in the words of Robert Greene : " There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...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,...
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Shakspere: His Inner Life as Intimated in His Works

John Abraham Heraud - 1865 - 548 pages
...of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance. He characterises him as " an upstart crow, beautified in 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,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with Biographical Introduction by ...

William Shakespeare - 1865 - 436 pages
...foul of some of Shakespeare's earlier attempts, and says maliciously, — " There is an upstart crowe beautified with our feathers, that with ' his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide' " (a parody of a line in the Third Part of " King Henry the Sixth") "supposes he is as well able to...
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The National Quarterly Review, Volumes 11-12

1865 - 838 pages
...beholding, shall, were ye in' that case, I am now, be both of them at once forsaken ? Yes, trust them not ! There is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wj-apt in a player1 1 hide, Supposes he is at well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of...
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Shaksperean Statistics

H. T. HALL - 1865 - 48 pages
...shall (were yee in that case that I am now) be both of them at once forsaken? Yes, trust them not; for there is an upstart crow beautified •with our feathers, that with his Tygres heart wrapt in a player's hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as...
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Shakespeare's Editors and Commentators

William Robson Arrowsmith - 1865 - 376 pages
...shall (were yee in that case that I am now) be both of them at once forsaken ? Yes, trust them not; for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygres heart wrapt in a player's hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as...
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Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 162 pages
...university background, who was dying in poverty, warned his learned colleagues against the success of "an upstart crow, beautified with our 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...
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Institutions of the Text

Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall - Drama - 2001 - 200 pages
...their wits in making plaies," in Greenes Groatsworth of Wit (1592), savages the young Shakespeare: "there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the...
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Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars

Sharon O'Dair - Drama - 2000 - 180 pages
...meane) that speake from our mouths, those Anticks garnisht in our colours. . . . Yes trust them not: for 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 bumbast out a blanke verse as...
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All's Well That Ends Well

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 164 pages
...fellow playwrights, Greene warns both generally and specifically: . . . trust them [actors] not: for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tigers heart wrapped in a players hide supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as...
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