 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1873 - 836 pages
...remember. Ben Jonson compliments his parliamentary eloquence highly, alleging that "no man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what ho uttered ; no member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1874 - 446 pages
...gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...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... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 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...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
...could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever si>:ike more neatly, more prcssly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could iiot cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded when... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Great Britain - 1874 - 672 pages
...— may as truly be said of Bacon. "What Ben Jonson said of him as a speaker — " no man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more * weightily, or suffered...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered" — is quite as true of him as a writer. And besides all this he had that mysterious gift to which... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...says, "No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, or less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his...him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and Lad his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1875 - 876 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more prcssly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech bnt his profession. He bore, with a patience ] consisted of his own graces. His and serenity which,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Birds - 1876 - 454 pages
...speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke." Those who heard him while their natures were yet plastic, and their mental nerves trembled under the... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 322 pages
...his printed aphorisms. Ben Jonson, a severe judge, who was chary of his praise, tells us that "no man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. The fear of every man who heard... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1877 - 898 pages
...in his 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,...speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers couJd not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges... | |
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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,... 
