 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
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 páginas
..."There happened," says he, "in my time, one noble speaker, who was lull of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 páginas
...speaking. His language, 1865.J [Feb. 'where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No mim ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 páginas
...could spare or ptv-s by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestí у, 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 or pleased at his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 páginas
...for his daily bread. In the Parliament which was called in 1593 he sat as member for the county oi Middlesex, and soon attained eminence as a debater....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 arid pleased at... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...speaking. His language (where lie 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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 páginas
...jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly , more weightily, or sutfcred less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered....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 or pleased at his... | |
 | 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...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 or pleased at his... | |
 | 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...but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could \iot cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry... | |
 | 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....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 his... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 426 páginas
...gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. Jso man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...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 his... | |
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