 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...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... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1866 - 716 pages
...famous Ben Jonson, " 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...recognition of one, who had an eye to see, an ear to hear, and a soul to comprehend : says Ben Jonson, " 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... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke - 1869 - 406 pages
...illustration of the passage from Milton. ' There happened in my time, one noble speaker (Lord Verulam), who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language...nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 732 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 pages
...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... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 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,...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... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 474 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,...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever si>:ike more neatly, more prcssly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1874 - 446 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... | |
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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,... 
