 | American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...soon became distinguished as an orator and debater. " There happened in my time," says Ben Jonson, " one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking....pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, leas idleness, in what... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 672 pages
...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....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... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - Great Britain - 1845 - 88 pages
...says he, " in my tune one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke 0* uside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his... | |
 | Andrew Amos - Poisoning - 1846 - 574 pages
...would he have appeared to us, if we had heard him!" "There happened," writes Ben Jonson of Bacon, " in my time, one noble speaker, who was full of gravity...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more greatly, more precisely, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, or less idleness in... | |
 | Andrew Amos - Poisoning - 1846 - 598 pages
...would he have appeared to us, if we had heard him!" " There happened," writes Ben Jonson of Bacon, " in my time, one noble speaker, who was full of gravity...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more greatly, more precisely, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, or less idleness in... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...oratory by Ben Jonson would seem to have a special reference to his speaking in Parliament : — " There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious [censorlike]. .No man ever spake_jnore neatly, more pressly, \ more .weightily, or suffered less emptiness,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...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...uttered : no member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers oould not cough or look aside from him without loss : he commanded when... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...had often listened to him with delight, and who was highly qualified to judge of his pretensions. " where (censor-like) ; no man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1849 - 688 pages
...had often listened to him with delight, and who was highly qualified to judge of his pretensions. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious (censor-like) no man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness,... | |
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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,... 
