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...none, and inimitable by any." Or, as rare Ben Jonson wrote of Lord Bacon himself : " No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...uttered ; no member of his speech but consisted of its own graces.- His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him without loss." The main topic...

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...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he...consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, nor look aside from him, without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased...

...time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more...graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke.'" Mr. Lowell gives a vivid description of the...

...an orator without oratory. "No man," said Ben Jonson, "ever spoke more neatly, more (com)pressedly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where...

...are thinking as he said. Ben Jonson wrote regarding the effect of Bacon's oratory: 'No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.'40 But the judgment is no less true of Bacon as writer than as speaker. Walter Raleigh according...

...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...graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion....

...orator by his friend the poet Ben Jonson, who wrote that "no man ever spoke more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. . . . His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke,...