 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1938 - 326 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 378 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...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... | |
 | Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pagina’s
...sustained attention. Ben Jonson paid tribute to these powers of presentation in Bacon's public speeches: 'His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him,...devotion. No man had their affections more in his power' [I, 13-14]. 16 Dialectic and method in the sixteenth century The development of dialectic in the sixteenth... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 pagina’s
...an orator without oratory. "No man," said Ben Jonson, "ever spoke more neatly, more (com)pressedly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke. . . . No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest... | |
 | Thomas Conley - 1994 - 336 pagina’s
...masters of it. Bacon's eloquence on the floor of Parliament, Ben Jonson reports, was so powerful that "his hearers could not cough or look aside from him...without loss. He commanded where he spoke . . . [and] the fear of every man who heard him was lest he should make an end."10 Readers of his Essays often... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1996 - 464 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...his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man bad And aa he was a good servant to his master, being never in nineteen years' service (as himself... | |
 | Perez Zagorin - 1999 - 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... | |
 | Peter Dawkins - 2004 - 481 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... | |
 | John Mantle Clapp, John Clapp, Mantle, Edwin A. Kane - 2006 - 660 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,... 
