 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 страници
...or pass hy a jest, was nohly censorious [censorlike]. No man ever spake more neatly, more prcssly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No memher of his speech hut consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 страници
...no imitator ever grew up to his author ; likeness is always on this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more... | |
 | 1848 - 780 страници
...specimen of oratory, let us take the oratory of Lord Bacon, as described by Ben Jonson : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity...No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more mightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but... | |
 | 1848 - 792 страници
...specimen of oratory, let us take the oratory of Lord Bacon, as described by Ben Jonson : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity...No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more mightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1848 - 24 страници
...specimen of oratory, let us take the oratory of Lord Bacon, as described by Ben Jonson : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity...No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more mightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but... | |
 | 1848 - 786 страници
...oratory, let us take the oratory of Lord Bacon, as described by Ben Jonson : " There happened in mj time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in...No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more mightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 536 страници
...Jonson pronounced on Lord Bacon's speaking may be justly applied to Samuel Adams. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speech. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 страници
...according to his friend, Ben Jonson, who thus speaks of his parliamentary eloquence: "There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in hie speaking : his language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever... | |
 | 1849 - 602 страници
...listened to him with delight, and who was highly qualified to judge of his pretensions. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious (censor-like) ; no man ever... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 688 страници
...listened to him with delight, and who was highly qualified to judge of his pretensions. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious (censor-like) no man ever... | |
| |
No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of [his] own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. 
