 | Francis Asbury Smith - 1907 - 144 pages
...London in 1586,—that is, when he was twenty-two. Aubry, his oldest biographer, says in 1680 that "this William, being naturally inclined to poetry and acting, came to London, I guess about eighteen (ie, in 1582), and was an actor at one of the playhouses, and did act exceeding... | |
 | Francis Asbury Smith - 1907 - 144 pages
...London in 1586,—that is, when he was twenty-two. Aubry, his oldest biographer, says in 1680 that "this William, being naturally inclined to poetry and acting, came to London, I guess about eighteen (ie, in 1582), and was an actor at one of the playhouses, and did act exceeding... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1908 - 304 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... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1909 - 304 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... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1909 - 236 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1909 - 1110 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... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 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 - 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
...Imagine Shakespeare a butcher ! Aubrey, writing a century later, says of him "When he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a...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... | |
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Warwick ; 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. 
