upstart quotes

For there isanupstartcrow, 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 as the best of you; and being an absolute Iohannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.

- Robert Greene
  Of Shakespeare. The Groatsworth of  Wit, Bought with a Million of Repentance. Iohannes fac totum = 'Jack-of-all-trades'.

The curse of hell upon the sleek upstart That got the Captain finally on his back And took the red red vitals of his heart And made the kites to whet their beaks clack clack.

-John Crowe Ransom
  Chills and Fever,'Captain Carpenter'.