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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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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 - 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 - 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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Notes and Queries

1872 - 592 pages
...novelist : — "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." The line in italics is a parody of one in 3 Henry VI. I. 4:— " O ! tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's...
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 pages
...shall, were ye 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...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country' We shall have occasion to examine into the meaning of Greene's charge presently. From this passage,...
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 pages
...case that I am now, be both of them at once forsaken ? Yes, trust them not ; for there is an tipstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.' We shall have occasion to examine into the meaning of Greene's charge presently. From this passage,...
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The National quarterly review, ed. by E.I. Sears

Edward Isidore Sears - 1874 - 434 pages
...inferior." Then follows this passage, which is usually thought by critics to refer to Shakespeare: " There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." From which curious criticism we may infer that even in those early times jealousy among dramatic authors...
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Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley

William Minto - 1874 - 508 pages
...assailed in particular one "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 Shakescene in a country." It is unnecessary to suppose that this bitter outburst, the best of all testimonies to Shakespeare's...
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Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange ...

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 pages
...dramatist and novelist, indulged in the following disparaging criticism in reference to Shakspeare : — as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." The line in italics is a parody of one in 3 Henry VI., i. 4: — " 0 ! tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's...
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