 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 pagina’s
...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 loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had bin judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 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 from him without loss. lie commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1028 pagina’s
...hearers eould not rnujrh or look , aside from him without IOPS. lio commanded where he spoke, and liad his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affect i'ms more in his power. The fear of every man that, heard him was lost he should make an end."... | |
 | Arthur Lloyd Windsor - 1860 - 428 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
 | Arthur Lloyd Windsor - 1860 - 428 pagina’s
...his own graces. 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 him was, lest he should make an end." 1 The settlement of the new... | |
 | George Lewis Prentiss - 1861 - 398 pagina’s
...felicity, imitating none, and inimitable by any." Or, as rare Ben Jonson wrote of Lord Bacon himself : " No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more...could not cough, or look aside from him without loss." The main topic of his address at this time was the SubTreasury scheme, to whose recent defeat his own... | |
 | 1861 - 878 pagina’s
...pregnant imagery of the Ü? Aufjmentis or the Л ovum Or'uun ; dazzled by accounts of the .nal orator who "commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion ;"* of the philosophic lawyer whose plans of reform have even yet to be thoroughly arried out ; few... | |
 | Paul Jacquinet - 1863 - 160 pagina’s
...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 from him, without loss. <i He commanded where he spok ; and had his judges angry and « pleased at his devotion. No man had... | |
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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,... 
