 | John Leifchild - 1857 - 110 páginas
...of Lord Bacon, by one of his contemporaries, that " no man ever spoke more neatly, more pressingly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own B graces. His hearers could not cough, nor look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke,... | |
 | New general biographical dictionary - 1857 - 528 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 882 páginas
...that of 1584 : after which he sate in every parliament that was summoned up to the time of his fall. As an edition of Bacon would hardly be complete unless...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 sjioke , and had... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 páginas
...speaking. His language, when 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 páginas
...censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, lese 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. He commanded where he spoke, and had his... | |
 | 1858 - 878 páginas
...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.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 páginas
...and of his parliamentary eloquence his friend Ben Jonson says, "There happened in my time one n6ble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking ;...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 páginas
...of truth ; yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his sneaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest)...of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him without loss. lie commanded where he spoke ; and had... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 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 uside 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,... 
