 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 pàgines
...of aiding his father's business, which, according to Aubrey, was then that of a butcher ; and that " when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style, and make a speeche." A pursuit so uncongenial naturally tended to pervert his taste, and we soon find him among... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1881 - 366 pàgines
...death, instead of two hundred and fifty), says that he was the village prodigy, that "he exercised his father's trade — but, when he killed a calf he would do it in high style and make a speech," etc., etc. Nor is there any thing in the record of his mature and latter... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Michael Rossetti - 1882 - 1168 pàgines
...butchering branch (if such existed) of the paternal business. " When he killed a calf," says Aubrey, " W ell. sir, I hope, when I do it, I shall do it ;" a story which was indeed easy to invent, but which is also not particularly difficult to believe.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 596 pàgines
...neighbours, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he kill'da calfe, he would doe 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 for a natural! wilt, his acquaintance and coetanean,... | |
 | 1885 - 420 pàgines
...developing the universal THE KANSAS CITY REVIEW mind of Shakespeare. There is a silly tradition that "when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech" — thus finding a congenial atmosphere for the germination of histrionic genius in the fetid vapors... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1897 - 482 pàgines
...apprentice' (DOWDALL). 'When he kill'daj calf,' Aubrey proceeds less convincingly, ' he would doe it ina 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 for a naturall witt, his acquaintance, and coetanean,... | |
 | Joseph Cundall - 1886 - 162 pàgines
...when he [ie the son William] 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." Aubrey also writes, " He was in his younger yeares a schoolmaster in the country." These bits of gossip... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 596 pàgines
...neighbours, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he kill'da calfe, he would doe it in a high style, and make a speech. There was at that time another butcher's son in this towne, lhat was held not at all inferior to him for a natural] witt, his acquaintance and coetanean,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 620 pàgines
...butcher; and according to Aubrey he performed the sacrificial rites with dramatic accompaniments, for "when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech." According to another report he was a country schoolmaster, and Malone has argued from Shakespeare's... | |
 | James Appleton Morgan - 1888 - 360 pàgines
...death, instead of two hundred and fifty), says that he was the village prodigy, that " he exercised his father's trade — but, when he killed a calf he would do it in high style and make a speech," etc., etc. Nor is there any thing in the record of his mature and latter... | |
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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. 
