 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 370 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...and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion [that is, at his will]. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 450 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. He commanded where he spoke." Those who heard him while their natures were yet plastic, and their mental nerves trembled under the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1871 - 674 pagina’s
...graces. His hearers could not cough, or looke aside from him, without losse. Hee commanded where hee spoke, and had his Judges angry, and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affection more in his power. The feare of every man that heard him, was, lest hee should make an end."^i.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1872 - 612 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, and Lad his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 926 pagina’s
...Prospero in Shakespeare's Tempest. * Platform. uttered. 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 where he spoke." Those who heard him while their natures were yet plastic, and their mental nerves trembled under the... | |
 | Robert Hannah - 1926 - 50 pagina’s
...speech but consisted of his own graces. . . . He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man who heard him was lest he should make an end. 4 With this quotation, most of the commentators make... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pagina’s
...2 Platform. uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could net cough, or look aside 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... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1926 - 666 pagina’s
...neatly, more pressly, 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 fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end."1 He assigns to himself... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1927 - 242 pagina’s
...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech 38 but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside...had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion." 4 Now this passage is almost word for word a transcription from Seneca the Elder, but not a plagiarism... | |
 | Thomas Case - 1927 - 308 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, with' out loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his ' judges angry and pleased at his devotion.... | |
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