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Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters. With an Historical Sketch of the ... - Page 31
by Henry Norman Hudson - 1888
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The Sylvan Wanderer;: Consisting of a Series of Moral ..., Volumes 1-2

Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...his tyger's head, 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...his own conceit the only Shake-scene* in a country! Oh, that I might intreat your rare wits to be employed in more profitable > courses: and let these...
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...Henry Chettle. Near the close of this tract, Greene makes an address " to those gentlemen his quondam acquaintance, who spend their wits in making plays,"...yield conclusive evidence as to how the Poet stood in 1592. Though sneered at as a player, it is plain that he was already throwing the other playwriters...
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The Monthly Magazine, Volume 39

Art - 1815 - 680 pages
...heart wrapt in a player's hydc, supposes he is as well able to bombaste ont a blanke verse as the beet of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Sliakescene in a conntrey." Malone invites our particular attention to the words, " for there is a...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...his tygres heart wrapt in a player s hide, supposes hee is as well able to bombaste 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 countrey." (j To Mr. Tyrwhit we are indebted for the first application of this * In bis Apology for...
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The London Magazine, Volume 4

1821 - 724 pages
...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 being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shalce-scene in a country." If this means Shakspeare, as it probably may, it shows great discernment...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...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...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." As it could not be doubtful against whom this attack was directed, we cannot wonder that Shakspeare...
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The life of Christopher Marlowe. Tamberlaine the Great, pts. I-II. The Jew ...

Christopher Marlowe - Dramatists, English - 1826 - 354 pages
...with his tigers heart wrapt in a players hide supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and being an absolute Johannes...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country. O that I might entreat your rare wits to be employed in more profitable courses ; and let these apes...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Life of Shakespeare. Seven ages ...

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 pages
...his tiger's heart wrapt 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...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." As it could not be doubtful against whom this attack was directed, we cannot wonder that Shakspeare...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 410 pages
...hee is well able to bombaste out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Joannes factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shakescene in a country.' — ' O tyger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide !' is a line in the old quarto play entitled The First...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Henry VI, pt. 1-3

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 410 pages
...hee is well able to bombaste out a blank verse as the best of yon ; and, being an absolute Joannes factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shakescene in a country.' — ' O tyger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide !' is a line in the old quarto play entitled The First...
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