 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1890 - 324 pàgines
...his intimate companions in early manhood. The tradition recorded by Aubrey distinctly states that " there was at that time another butcher's son in this town, that was held not at all inferior to him for a natural wit, his acquaintance and coetanean, but died young." In September 1585, when the Earl... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 pàgines
...and I have been told 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 hi a high style and make a speech. . . . This William, being inclined to poetry and acting, came to... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - 1893 - 238 pàgines
...draw attention to the fact that he was no ordinary executioner, but, to use the words of Aubrey. ' when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech.' It may be doubted if even this palliative will suffice to reconcile the employment with our present... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1893 - 160 pàgines
...a^hj+rhp-ts; and according to Aubery 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1894 - 392 pàgines
...neighbours, that when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade ; but mheii he killed a calfe, he would do it in a high style, and make a speech !" MS Aubrey. Mus. Ashmol. Oion. Rowe tells us, that he received from Betterton, the actor, the chief... | |
 | Frederick Samuel Boas - 1896 - 578 pàgines
...future poet was ' bound apprentice to a butcher,' though he attempts to salve the blow by adding that ' when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech.' His statement, however, which is supported by the assertions of the Stratford parish clerk in 1693,... | |
 | John Aubrey, Andrew Clark - 1898 - 426 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 naturall witt, his acquaintance and coetanean,... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 524 pàgines
...butcher's apprentice.' 1 ' When he kill'da calf,' Aubrey proceeds less convincingly, ' 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 naturall witt, his acquaintance, and coetanean,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1909 - 236 pàgines
...draw attention to the fact that he was no ordinary executioner, but, to use the words• of Aubrey, "when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech." It may be doubted if even this palliative will suffice to reconcile the employment with our present... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 244 pàgines
...to draw attention to the fact that he was no ordinary executioner, but, to use the words of Aubrey, "when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech." It may be doubted if even this palliative will suffice to reconcile the employment with our present... | |
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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. 
