 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English literature - 1910 - 512 pages
...Aubrey repeated an earlier tradition which made Shakespeare exercise his father's trade and added that "when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech." We need not believe this story; indeed, we need not believe a word of Aubrey; but it has been well... | |
 | William Lewis Hertslet - History - 1911 - 496 pages
...ber üerfфtebene 3lnefs boten über ben 2)<ф1ег fünfjig Зл^ге паф beffen Xobe fammelte), „he would do it in a high style and make a speech". £)оф roar 3oi)n @f)afefpeare паф einer UrPunbe oon 1556 ^>anbfфu6mйфer unb паф einer anbern... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1916 - 184 pages
...Aubrey, writing a century later, says of him "When he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech." Certainly nothing but the direst necessity would have driven his high spirit to following his father's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1919 - 346 pages
...probably helped his father. One tradition says that he was a butcher's apprentice, and that when killing a calf " he would do it in a high style, and make a speech." It is not at all improbable that this tradition is true, for his father was a butcher, and we can easily... | |
 | William Teignmouth Shore - Dramatists, English - 1920 - 200 pages
...of the neighbours that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calfe he would do it in a high style, and make a speech Of the English books that would be put into the boy's hands, the most likely to be an influence would... | |
 | Frank James Mathew - 1922 - 460 pages
...heretofore by some of his neighbours that, when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech. . . . This William, being naturally inclined to Poetry and Acting, came to London, I guess about eighteen,... | |
 | Edgar I. Fripp - Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1924 - 230 pages
...heretofore by some of the ' neighbours that when he was a boy he exercised ' his father's trade, but when he killed a calf ' he would do it in a high style and make a speech.2 ' There was at that time another butcher's son ' in this town ' (Stratford) ' that was held... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1926 - 392 pages
...father's fortunes. Aubrey records that " when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade, but w^ien he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech." The next record that we have is that of his marriage, in 1582, at the age of eighteen, to Anne Hathaway,... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - Computers - 1915 - 790 pages
...of the neighbours, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he kill'da calfe he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. There was at that time another butcher's son in this towne that was held not at all inferior to him... | |
 | John Aubrey - Biography & Autobiography - 1982 - 340 pages
...told heretofore by some of the neighbours, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. There was at that time another butcher's son in this town that was held not at all inferior to him... | |
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His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. 
