 There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member...  A Biographical History of Philosophy - Página 18por George Henry Lewes - 1851Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 páginas
...powerful advocate, according to his friend, Ben Jonson, who thus speaks of his parliamentary eloquence: "There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in hie speaking : his language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever... | |
 | 1848 - 786 páginas
...oratory, let us take the oratory of Lord Bacon, as described by Ben Jonson : " There happened in mj time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more mightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 páginas
...author. " There happened in my time," says the learned poet, " one noble speaker, the Lord Verxilam, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 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 full of gravity in his Treasurer for the admonition, and promised to profit by it. Strangers meanwhile were less unjust to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...author. " There happened in my time," says the learned poet, " one noble speaker, the Lord Verulam, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 páginas
...speaks of the eloquence of Lord Bacon : " There happened in my time one noble speaker (Lord Yerulam) who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or ptv-s by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestí у, more weightily,... | |
 | 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 - 846 páginas
...though he made that (as himself said) but as an accessory, and not as his principal study." In 1590, he sat in Parliament as Member for Middlesex. He soon...Bacon's oratory was worthy of his other powers. Ben Junson thus writes : " There happened, in my time, one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 páginas
...and eloquence were universally recognised by his contemporaries. Ben Jonson writes thus of Bacon : ' There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 páginas
...Middlesex. Fortunately, wo have a graphic sketch of Bacon as the orator, by his friend Den Jonson : •' There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a ji'st. wag nobly censorious. No man ever Kpoke more neatly, more pressly.... | |
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