 | Perez Zagorin - 1998 - 318 pagina’s
...neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. . . . His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him,...without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had hisjudges angry or pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2003 - 488 pagina’s
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 | Peter Dawkins - 2004 - 159 pagina’s
...suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside...without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had us angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2005 - 412 pagina’s
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 | John Mantle Clapp, John Clapp, Mantle, Edwin A. Kane - 2006 - 661 pagina’s
...neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss." The comment carries both praise and condemnation. People admired Bacon deeply, but his thought was... | |
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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,... 
