| Sir Philip Sidney - 1787 - 158 páginas
...imitated alone : for no imitator, evergrew up to his author; likenefs is always orT*truTfille.truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble Speaker, who was full of gravity in his fpeaking. His language (where he could fpare, or pafs by a jeft) was nobly cenfoiious. No man ever... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1806 - 430 páginas
...Verulamus, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or passe by a jest) was nobly censorious; no man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptinesse, lesse idleness in what he uttcr'd. His hearers could not cough, or looke aside from him,... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 páginas
...imitated alone: 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 neatly, morepressly,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 páginas
...opposite characters, viz. of a witty and a weighty speaker.* Ben Jonson says nearly the same of Lord Bacon. There happened in my time one noble speaker,...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 neatly, more... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 páginas
...alone ; for no imitator ever grew up to his author : likeness is always on this side of 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 neatly, more... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 528 páginas
...alone ; for no imitator ever grew up to his author : likeness is always on this side of 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 neatly, more... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 páginas
...his mind, Jonson was peculiarly qualified to form a competent judgment. " There happened," says he, " in my time, one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 páginas
...his mind, Jonson was peculiarly qualified to form a competent judgment. " There happened," says he, " in my time, one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 páginas
...his mind, Jonson was peculiarly qualified to form a competent judgment. " There happened," says he, " in my time, one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 páginas
...mind. As a 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 in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more mightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
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