 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 410 pages
...proposed to him—that is, became a dealer in wool. Aubrey was told that he practised as a butcher, and ' when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.' So early as 1693, the parish-clerk of Stratford, then more than eighty years old, asserted that the... | |
 | Children's literature, English - 1863 - 348 pages
...butcher. An old writer (Aubrey) tells us, that Shakspeare assisted in his father's business, and that "when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech." But even to the mind of Shakspeare there was a greater pleasure than that of doing business in the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Philobiblon Society (Great Britain) - Dramatists, English - 1863 - 566 pages
...I have been told heretofore by fome of " the neighbours, that when he was a boy he " exercifed his father's trade; but when he " killed a calf he would do it in a high ftyle, " and make a fpeech. This William being " inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came " to... | |
 | Great Britain - 1865 - 792 pages
...butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that when he WM 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. This William being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I guess about 18, and was... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 402 pages
...the neighbours, that when he 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!" MS Aubrey. Mas. Ashmol. Oxon. Rowe tells us, that he received from Betterton, the actor, the chief... | |
 | Charles Knight - Biography - 1867 - 532 pages
...that when he was a boy ho exercised his father's trade ; but when he killed a c»lf he would do it in high style, and make a speech. There was at that time another butcher's son in this town that was h.-ld not at all inferior to him for a natural wit, his acquaintance and coetacean, but died young."... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 534 pages
...that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade ; but wheu he killed a calf he would do it in high style, and make a speech. There was at that time another butcher's son in this town that was ht Id not at all inferior to him for a natural wit, his acquaintance ami сое. tanean, but died young."... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 584 pages
...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 high style, and make a speech. There was at that time another butcher's son in this town that was held... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...Another represents him as assisting his father in slaughtering animals, and says that when William killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. But I do not believe the young poet ever wasted any eloquence in an elegy on a dying calf. Some wise... | |
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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. 
