| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 páginas
...judge, has described his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look uside... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 páginas
...speaks of the eloquence of Lord Bacon: "There happened in my time one noble speaker (Lord Verulam) who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language,...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly , more weightily, or sutfcred less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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 was...full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where lie could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly,... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 482 páginas
...judge to assure us that Bacon's oratory was worthy of his other powers. Ben Jonson thus writes : " There happened, in my time, one noble speaker, who...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could \iot cough or look aside... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 846 páginas
...judge to assure us that Bacon's oratory was worthy of his other powers. Ben Junson thus writes : " There happened, in my time, one noble speaker, who...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside... | |
| John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 páginas
...that he should retain his seat in the Lower House. " There happened in my time," says Ben Jonson, " one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking....less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1857 - 880 páginas
...contained Ben Jonson's famous description of his manner of speaking, I shall insert it here: — " Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
| 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 was...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 426 páginas
...that he should retain his seat in the Lower House. " There happened in my time," says Ben Jonson, " one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking....could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. Jso man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
| 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 in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own B graces. His hearers could not cough, nor look aside... | |
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