 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1874 - 404 pages
...speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not congh or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and... | |
 | Michael Walsh - 1875 - 90 pages
...parliamentary tactician. Ben Jonson, an eye and ear witness, describes Bacon's eloquence as follows: „There happened in my time one noble speaker who...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, 6) Works, Lett. Temp. Eliz. No. 7. or suffered less... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 764 pages
...has decribed Bacon's eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weighty, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he... | |
 | Law - 1877
...memorable words on the wonderful power of Lord Bacon, for they are all applicable to Mr. Choate : " There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less idleness, in what he uttered. No... | |
 | Law - 1877
...Jonson's memorable words on the wonderful power of Lord Bacon, for they are all applicable to Mr. Choate: "There happened in my time one noble speaker, who...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less idleness, in what he uttered. No... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1877 - 850 pages
...words, which, though often quoted, .will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noblo speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1878 - 445 pages
...After this. Bacon was more cautious. As an orator he received the commendation of old Ben Jonson, who says, "There happened in my time one noble speaker,...spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or Buffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech hut consisted of... | |
 | English literature - 1879
...on the minds of his hearers. ' There happened in my time,' he writes. ' one noble speaker, who W.IK full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where...idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but con* Speddiug, ' Life,' yol. vp 243. sisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias - 1879
...in after life remember. Ben Jonson compliments his parliamentary eloquence highly, alleging that " no man ever spake 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 when... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880
...has described Bacon's eloquence in words which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
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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,... 
