...always in after life remember. Ben Jonson compliments his parliamentary eloquence highly, alleging that "no man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more...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...

...quoted again. " 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 spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what...

...love and endeavour to serve him "[S3]Ben Jonson tells lovingly of his virtue and thus of his speech: "No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more...emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . . No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should...

...gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prcssly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. BEN JON SON. /* [the book of Bacon's essays] may be read from beginning to end in a few hours, and...

...°^ His language, where he could spare and pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his (its) own graces. . . . The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end. From Macaulay:...

...eloquence: — 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)...ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of...

...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...

...when in exercise are thinking as he said. Ben Jonson wrote regarding the effect of Bacon's oratory: 'No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more...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...

...addition, as when he cites Ben Jonson, who (differing notably from this critic) recalled that Bacon's language, 'where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious', and relays it to his students as: 'as Ben Jonson pointed out, Bacon couldn't resist a joke, especially...

...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,...