 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1927 - 242 pagina’s
...Dominus Verulanus, whom we call without any warrant whatsoever " Lord Bacon," with these words : " Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker who was...nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of... | |
 | Thomas Case - 1927 - 308 pagina’s
...alone; for never no imitator ever ' grew up to his author; likeness is always on this side truth. ' Yet there happened in my time one noble Speaker, who '...censorious. No ' man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily, ' or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. ' No member... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 pagina’s
...eulogy to help the sale of a book, gives us this graphic description of Bacon's eloquence: — Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 378 pagina’s
...and without which all doctrine is chaff." " I can never help applying to him what Ben Jonson said of Bacon—' There happened in my time one noble speaker,...was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less... | |
 | Nieves Mathews - 1996 - 620 pagina’s
...addition, as when he cites Ben Jonson, who (differing notably from this critic) recalled that Bacon's language, 'where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious', and relays it to his students as: 'as Ben Jonson pointed out, Bacon couldn't resist a joke, especially... | |
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No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or 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... 
