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" Yes, trust them not: for 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 bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum,... "
The life of Christopher Marlowe. Tamberlaine the Great, pts. I-II. The Jew ... - Page ii
by Christopher Marlowe - 1826
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, with Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 542 pages
...these works, which was published by Chettle subeee, an oge, says, , (the managers of the theatre;) all Beatrice to von, who, I think hath legs. [Exit MARGARET. Benc. Ana ther tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse...
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The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare ..., Volume 2

John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 520 pages
...peevishly and enviously brought against him, by Robert Greene, in his Groatsworth of Wit, 1592 : — ' 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 bombast out a blank-verse...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 103, Part 1; Volume 153

Early English newspapers - 1833 - 736 pages
...the rising reputation of Shakspeare. " Trust them not," he says, (addressing Peele and Lodge, &c.) " for there is an upstart Crow beautified with our feathers, that with ' his tigur's heart wrapt in a player's hide,' supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse,...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...dramatists, Marlowe, Peele, and Lodge, says, "Yes ! trust them not," (the managers of the theatre;) "for th - tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, •npposes he is as well able to bombast out a Wank •rerse...
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Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great ..., Volume 2

Samuel Astley Dunham - Authors, English - 1837 - 418 pages
...strange that I, to whom they all have been beholding, shall (were ye in that case that 1 am now), be left of them at once forsaken ? Yes, trust them not ; for...crow beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 23

English literature - 1838 - 598 pages
...l.i9'J, speaks thus of a dramatic writer who had given him and others mortal offence by his success: — '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 bombnst out a blank verse as...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 131

English literature - 1871 - 608 pages
...— and justly so — in his dying hours. Thus in the well-known passage referring to Shakspeare : ' 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 bombast out a blanJt verse at...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 23

1838 - 604 pages
...speaks tlms of a dramatic writer who had given him and others mortal offence by his success : — ' 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 bombast out a blank verse as...
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Introduction to the Literature of Europe: In the Fifteenth ..., Volume 2

Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 542 pages
...some one who has been conjectured to be Peele, but more probably Marlowe, " trust them (the players) not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his tyger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Life. New facts regarding the life ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 608 pages
...dramatists, Marlowe, Peele, and Lodge, says, " Yes ! trust them not " (the managers of the theatre) ; " 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...
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