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" ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country. "
The popular encyclopedia; or, 'Conversations Lexicon': [ed. by A. Whitelaw ... - Page 49
by Popular encyclopedia - 1885
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Knight's Store of Knowledge for All Readers: Being a Collection of Treatises ...

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1841 - 440 pages
...with Ai* tiger t heart wrapped in a player't hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank- verse as the best of you : and, being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shakescene in a country." There can be no doubt that Shakspere was here pointed at;...
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Amenities of literature, sketches and characters of English literature, Volume 3

Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 436 pages
...with his tyger's heart wrapt in a player s hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast t out a blank verse as the best of you, and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only SHAKESCENE in a country." "The absolute Johannes Factotum," "the only shake-scene,"...
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Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1842 - 360 pages
...with his tygcr'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 Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only SHAKE-SCENE in a country." "The absolute Johannes Factotum," "the only shakescene,"...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 628 pages
...instrumental in the publication of Greene's attack upon him. VOL. V. Q well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shakescene in a countrey." (Dyce's Edit, of Greene's Works, I. Ixxxi.) In this extract,...
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William Shakspere: A Biography, Book 2

Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...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, is in his own conceit the only Shakescene in a country." The insult offered to Shakspere was atoned for by the editor...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 pages
...Tiger's heart wrapp'din 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 Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country. Let these apes imitate your past excellence, and never...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...Tigers 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 Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country. O ! that I might entreat your rare wits to be employed...
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...Tigers heart wrapp'd 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 Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country. O ! that I might entreat your rare wits to be employed...
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Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With ...

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...with 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 Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." — Greene'* Groatsworth of Wit, 1592. t By the Rev. Joseph...
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Shakspeare's dramatic art: and his relation to Calderon and Goethe, tr. [by ...

Hermann Ulrici - 1846 - 596 pages
...that with his tyger's heart wrapt in a player's hide,* supposes he is as able to bombaste out a blanc verse, as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Fac-totum, is in his own conceite the only Shakescene in the country." Now in the first place, the words " beautified in our...
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