 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 882 pages
...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...aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he sjioke , and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had And as he was a good servant... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1858 - 652 pages
...T. Meautys, or Mewtis, his admirer, as he calls himself. " Ño man," says Ben Jonson, " ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily; or suffered...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . . His hearers could not look aside from him without loss. ... No man had their affections more... | |
 | 1858 - 878 pages
...admirable. As Ben Jonson said of his speeches in Parliament, " No man ever spake more neatly, more briefly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered." Never, surely, was truth more closely packed, or conveyed in language more pithy, nervous, and striking.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man at his protestantism does not make the slightest distinction between his case and lese idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...sneaking. 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...could not cough, or look aside from him without loss. lie commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...in hij 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,...his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look uside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1859 - 616 pages
...censorious. No tuan ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, letl idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearerscould not cough, or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1859 - 1030 pages
...ji'st. wag nobly censorious. No man ever Kpoke more neatly, more pressly. more weightily, or RufTered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speoch but consisted of bis own ••.r:nv>. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 950 pages
...ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less empti ness, less idleness, ill what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted...graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from liim without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.... | |
 | Arthur Lloyd Windsor - English literature - 1860 - 428 pages
...listener: " 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, less idleness, in what he uttered. _ 1 1238, 24—2 No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough... | |
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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,... 
