 | William James Rolfe - Dramatists, English - 1904 - 600 pages
...Sir Thomas Lucy's park at Charlecote, which is by no means improbable. Rowe tells the story thus: " He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some, that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him with them more than... | |
 | 1904 - 390 pages
...readie and pleasant smooth witt. — AUBREY, JOHN, 1669-96, Brief Lives, ed. Clark, vol. n, p. 225. He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1904 - 324 pages
...tradition is supplied in the first instance by Rowe, Shakespeare's earliest biographer. Rowe says (1709): "He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, among them, some that made a frequent practice of deerstealing, engaged him with them more than once... | |
 | John Hawley Stotsenburg - 1904 - 556 pages
...that he gave his own children no education. The next traditional statement is that " he, Shakespeare, had by a misfortune common enough to young fellows fallen into ill company; and among them some that made a frequent practice of deer stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - Drama - 1906 - 328 pages
...misfortune to him, yet it afterwards happily proved the occasion of exerting one of the greatest geniuses that ever was known in dramatick poetry. He had by...enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1906 - 1276 pages
...to London ; but mention must be made of one famous tradition. It is thus recorded by Rowe in 1709: " He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill compauy; and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of Deer-stealing engag'd him with them... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - England - 1907 - 456 pages
...cause of his abandonment of Stratford. " He had," wrote his first biographer, Nicholas Rowe, in 1709, "by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, among them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stalking, engaged him with them more than once... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1907 - 718 pages
...Thomas Lucy, a neighbouring landed proprietor. "He had," writes the chief authority for the story, "by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, among them, some, that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him with them more than once... | |
 | Walter Shaw Sparrow - England - 1908 - 714 pages
...that makes the poaching adventure as welcome as Falstaff and his companions. Shakespeare, says Rowe, " had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, among them, some, that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him with them more than once... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 244 pages
...at complete maturity. Three or four years after his union with Anne Hathaway, he had, observes Rowe, "by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, among them, some, that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him with them more than once... | |
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He had by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.... 
