 | New general biographical dictionary - 1857 - 528 страници
...he would spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more preesly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered : no member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him without... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 страници
...for 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... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 838 страници
...us that Bacon's oratory was worthy of his other powers. Ben Jonson thus writes : " 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 spoke more... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 880 страници
...Jonson's famous description of his manner of speaking, I shall insert it here: — " 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 882 страници
...speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...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... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1858 - 652 страници
...T. Meautys, or Mewtis, his admirer, as he calls himself. " Ño man," says Ben Jonson, " ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily; or suffered...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . . His hearers could not look aside from him without loss. ... No man had their affections more... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 страници
...were universally recognised by his contemporaries. Ben Jonson writes thus of Bacon : ' There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 страници
...his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " 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 spoke more... | |
 | 1858 - 878 страници
...admirable. As Ben Jonson said of his speeches in Parliament, " No man ever spake more neatly, more briefly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered." Never, surely, was truth more closely packed, or conveyed in language more pithy, nervous, and striking.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 страници
...Fortunately, wo have a graphic sketch of Bacon as the orator, by his friend Den Jonson : •' There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a ji'st. wag nobly censorious. No man ever Kpoke more... | |
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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. 
