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... Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 249por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Herbert Palmer - 1917 - 82 páginas
...Bacon's language: "There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speech. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more...his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his discretion."... | |
| Mark Twain - 1917 - 392 páginas
...be he yt moves my bones. Ben Jonson says of Bacon, as orator: His language, where he could spare and pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever...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:... | |
| Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1917 - 518 páginas
...good speaker. Ben Jonson said of him : " He was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside frqm him, without loss. He commanded where he spake; and had his judges angry and pleased at... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 698 páginas
...he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious, No man ever spake more neatly, more rightly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his... | |
| Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 404 páginas
...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...his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke." Those who heard him while their natures... | |
| Geraldine Emma Hodgson - 1923 - 328 páginas
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more presly,1 more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at... | |
| Alexander Magnus Drummond - 1925 - 322 páginas
...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...his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke.' " ' III Now, what has Emerson to contribute... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 páginas
...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...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of the owne graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where... | |
| Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 páginas
...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...his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at... | |
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