 | Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. Hi* hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and bad... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1878 - 444 pages
...when he could spare or pass a jest, waa nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more preesly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...hearers could not cough or look aside from him without lose. He commanded where he spoko, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - English literature - 1878 - 212 pages
...examination in our schools." — Hallam. " No one ever spoke more neatly, more purely, more mightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what...member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end." — Ben Jonson. I. — Editions... | |
 | James Spedding - Philosophy - 1878 - 736 pages
...impression took," — may as truly be said of Bacon. What Ben Jonson said of him as a speaker, — " No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...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... | |
 | Mark Twain - Hawaii - 1909 - 172 pages
...tfn\<l^^l""t~*' °^ His language, where he could spare and pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his (its) own graces. . . . The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end. From Macaulay:... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Biography - 1938 - 326 pages
...have Bacon. Ben Jonson's testimony of Bacon's eloquence as an advocate is decisive. Ben Jonson said,1 "His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - Computers - 1915 - 790 pages
...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he...consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, nor look aside from him, without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - Authors, American - 1882 - 378 pages
...one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke.'" Mr. Lowell gives a vivid description of the effect produced by Emerson's speech at the Burns Centenary... | |
 | Will Durant - Biography & Autobiography - 1965 - 736 pages
...an orator without oratory. "No man," said Ben Jonson, "ever spoke more neatly, more (com)pressedly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...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... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...are thinking as he said. Ben Jonson wrote regarding the effect of Bacon's oratory: 'No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.'40 But the judgment is no less true of Bacon as writer than as speaker. Walter Raleigh according... | |
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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,... 
