 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 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...of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 páginas
...says he, "in my time, one noble speaker, who was lull of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke 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 where... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...language, where he could pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, 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 without loss. He commanded where he spoke,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 páginas
...language, 1865.J [Feb. 'where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No mim ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke., and had... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 páginas
...could spare or ptv-s by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestí у, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where lie could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious....of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 páginas
...jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly , more weightily, or sutfcred less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered....of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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...of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 846 páginas
...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, or suffered...of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his... | |
 | John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 páginas
...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, or suffered...of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his... | |
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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,... 
