...— of tragical speeches.' He also speaks of 'the servile imitation of vainglorious tragedians * * the alchymists of eloquence who, mounted on the stage of arrogance, think to outbrave bettvr pens with the swelling bombast of bragging blank verse.' This strain of jealous abuse is repeated...

...the old plays charged against Shakspere. The term had been used by Nashe five years before : — " Idiot art-masters, that intrude themselves to our...stage of arrogance) think to outbrave better pens with tht milling bombait <jf bragging blatik-vent,' (Epistle prefixed to Greene's Menaphon, 1687.) 1 Edin....

...but once get Boreas by the beard, and the heavenly Bull by the dewlap." • It il he who despises the "idiot art-masters that intrude themselves to our...better pens with the swelling bombast of bragging blank verse."t In a year or two Nash was the foremost of controversialists. There are few things in our language...

...It is he who despises the "idiot art-masters that intrude themselves to our ears as the alehymists of eloquence, who, mounted on the stage of arrogance,...better pens with the swelling bombast of bragging blank verse."t In a year or two Nash was the foremost of controversialists. There are few things in our language...

...idiot art-masters " (Masters of Arts of no University) "that intrude themselves .... as alchemists of eloquence, who (mounted on the stage of arrogance)...better pens with the swelling bombast of bragging blank verse.1 Indeed," ho proceeds, " it may be, the ingrafted flow of some kill-cow 2 conceit that overcloyeth...

...bequeath them to folly äs their idiot artmasters that intrude themselwes to our ears äs the alchemists of eloquence who (mounted on the stage of arrogance) think to outbrave better pens with swelling bombast of bragging blankverse. Indeed it may be the ingrafted overflow of some kill - cow...

...same vein lie speaks of 'the servile imitations of vaine' glorious tragedians, . . . the alchyniists of eloquence who, ' mounted on the stage of arrogance,...better ' pens with the swelling bombast of bragging blank-verse.' In ' The Anatomic of Ahsurditie,' 1589, this style of attack is pressed home ; speaking,...

...speeches.' In the same vein he speaks of ' the servile imitations of vaine-glorious tragedians, . . . the alchymists of eloquence who, mounted on the stage of arrogance, think to outbrav« better pens with the swelling bombast of bragging blank-verse.' In ' The Anatomic of Absurditie,'...

...by this consideration.' Menaphon, a pamphlet published in 1587. In this Epistle Nash speaks of the ' idiot art-masters? that intrude themselves to our...better pens with the swelling bombast of bragging blank-verse.' He then talks of ' the spacious volubility of a drumming decasyllabon.' It suffices to...

...but once get Boreas by the beard, and the heavenly Bull by the dewlap. But herein I cannot so fully bequeath them to folly, as their idiot art-masters,...better pens with the swelling bombast of bragging blankverse. Indeed, it may be the engrafted overflow of some kill-cow conceit, that overcloyeth their...