 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 páginas
...neatly, more prest ly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what lie littered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearer» could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1873 - 836 páginas
...remember. Ben Jonson compliments his parliamentary eloquence highly, alleging that "no man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what ho uttered ; no member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - 446 páginas
...noble speaker who was ran of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly,...consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not congh or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 páginas
...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...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 when... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 páginas
...could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever si>:ike more neatly, more prcssly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could iiot cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded when... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 672 páginas
...— may as truly be said of Bacon. "What Ben Jonson said of him as a speaker — " no man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more * weightily, or suffered...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered" — is quite as true of him as a writer. And besides all this he had that mysterious gift to which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 páginas
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more prcssly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech bnt his profession. He bore, with a patience ] consisted of his own graces. His and serenity which,... | |
 | Michael Walsh - 1875 - 98 páginas
...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 neatly, more pressly, more weightily, 6) Works, Lett. Temp. Eliz. No. 7. or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 322 páginas
...thought as his printed aphorisms. Ben Jonson, a severe judge, who was chary of his praise, tells us that "no man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. The fear of every man who heard... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 páginas
...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 neatly, more pressly, more weighty, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but... | |
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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 pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness,... 
