 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...alone. For never 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Magnus Drummond - Elocution - 1925 - 322 pages
...expanded, the testimony employed takes the form of the celebrated commendation from his friend Ben Jonson : There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of... | |
 | Charles Lewis Stainer - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1925 - 90 pages
...speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (when he could spare or pass by aj est) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly,...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . .' The meaning of this is obvious. The concluding line of the conversation above is borrowed from... | |
 | Robert Hannah - 1926 - 50 pages
...celebrated commendation from his friend Ben Jonson: There happened in my time one noble speaker wno was full of gravity in his speaking; his language,...nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more j>resly. more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English literature - 1927 - 242 pages
...Dominus Verulanus, whom we call without any warrant whatsoever " Lord Bacon," with these words : " Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker who was...nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of... | |
 | Thomas Case - Education - 1927 - 308 pages
...alone; for never 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 '...censorious. No ' man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily, ' or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. ' No member... | |
 | Mark Twain - Hawaii - 1909 - 172 pages
...°^ 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:... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - Computers - 1915 - 790 pages
...eulogy to help the sale of a book, gives us this graphic description of Bacon's eloquence: — Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...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... | |
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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, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness,... 
