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"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 bumbast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Iohannes fac-totum, is in his owne conceit the only Shake-scene in a countrie." The best critics agree that the "upstart Crow" and "Shake-scene" refer to Shakespeare.
She wanted just this excellent automaton fac-totum; and she referred him to Mr. Braddock for the title-deeds, et caetera the chirping phrase of ladies happily washing their hands of the mean details of business. 'How of your last work? he asked her. Serenest equanimity rejoined: 'As I anticipated, it is not popular. The critics are of one mind with the public.
Yet he must already have wielded considerable authority, seeing that he is publicly, though with sneering arrogance, called a complete Johannes Fac-totum a man who has laid himself out in every direction. It is the divine mission of a genius to bring order out of chaos, to regulate matters with the directing force of his superior glance.
His rancorous spite against them he expresses in the well-known words: '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 blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Fac-totum, is in his owne conceit the onely 'SHAKE-SCENE in a countrie.
She wanted just this excellent automaton fac-totum; and she referred him to Mr. Braddock for the title-deeds, et caetera the chirping phrase of ladies happily washing their hands of the mean details of business. 'How of your last work? he asked her. Serenest equanimity rejoined: 'As I anticipated, it is not popular. The critics are of one mind with the public.
My hat, indeed, is a great favourite; and though I got it literally for an old song, I would not exchange it for the best beaver in Britain. I was, during several years, a kind of fac-totum servant to a country clergyman, where I picked up a good many scraps of learning, particularly in some branches of the mathematics.
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