 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pagine
...Shakespeare's father was a butcher,—while he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when be killed a calf, he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. This William being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I guess, about eighteen,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 440 pagine
...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 has been recently published a letter, which was formerly in the possession of the family of I-«rd... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pagine
...adds, with regard to our poet, that " when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade;" and that "when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style, and make a speech." \ That John Shakspeare, when under the pressure of adversity, might combine the two employments, which... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pagine
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pagine
...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, had stated5. We think that Malone was right, and the testimony is unquestionably more positive and... | |
 | 1845 - 570 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1845 - 410 pagine
...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... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1852 - 376 pagine
...ennobling idea or sentiment. " When he killed a calf," said the people of the neighborhood to Aubrey, " he would do it in a high style, and make a speech." Who can not catch a glimpse, in this story, of the tragic poet inspired by the sight of death, even... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pagine
...heretofore by some of the neighbours, that when he was a boy he exereised his father's trade ; but when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style, and make a speech." This tradition certainly does not reaa like truth, and at what date Aubrey obtained his information... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 pagine
...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." But I will not believe that the great Harvey, who discovered the circulation of the blood by patient... | |
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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. 
