 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1850 - 610 pagina’s
...suffered less emptiness, leas 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. II« commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 504 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...affections more in his power. The fear of every man who heard him was lest he should make an end."^ So intoxicated was Bacon with the success of his first... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 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...affections more in his power. The fear of every man who heard him was lest he should make an end."* So intoxicated was Bacon with the success of his first... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pagina’s
...powerful advocate, according to his friend, Ben Jonson, who thus speaks of his parliamentary eloquence : " There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...or look aside from him without loss : he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pagina’s
...what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not congh or look aside from him without loss. He commanded...judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had flieir aflections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pagina’s
...his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look uside from him without loss. He commanded «-here he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had fneir affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1853 - 528 pagina’s
...he would spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more preisly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...or look aside from him without loss : he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 506 pagina’s
...to him the compliment passed by Ben Jonson on Lord Verulam : — " He commanded when he spoke ; he had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power ; and the fear of every man that heard him was lest he should come to an end.'' In general politics,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 pagina’s
...says he, "in my time, one noble speaker, who was lull of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard him was, that ho should make an end." Xo finer description of the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 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...affections more in his power. The fear of every man who heard him was lest he should make an end." In politics, however, he made a perilous attempt to... | |
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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,... 
