 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pagina’s
...imitated alone ; for no imitator ever grew up to his author; likeness ¡s always on this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His Iang-iiagc (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 pagina’s
...has described Bacon's eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 pagina’s
...this, Bacon was more cautious. As an orator he received the commendation of old Ben Jonson, who says, " There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever si>:ike more neatly, more prcssly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 484 pagina’s
...readiness, and eloquence were universally recognised by his contemporaries. Ben Jonson writes thus of Bacon : ' There happened in my time one noble speaker...was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly,... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pagina’s
...of Parliament, where he was noted for his ability to say much in few words. Ben Jonson says of him: "There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness... | |
 | Walter Arensberg - 1922 - 314 pagina’s
...page 101 of Timber, relating to Domimis Ferulanus : alwayes on this side Truth : Yet there hapn'd, in my time, one noble Speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, (where hee could spare, or passe by a jest) was nobjy censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more presly,... | |
 | Edward Walter Smithson - 1922 - 242 pagina’s
...Discovery treats De darts Orataribus, and among them of Dominus Verulamius* in these words : There hapn'd in my time one noble Speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where hee could spare or passe by a jest) was nobly censorious. . . . No member of his speech but consisted... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1865 - 348 pagina’s
...men ; The soul which answer'd best to all well said By others, and which most requital made." d. " There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. . . . No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily. . . . The fear of every man that... | |
 | George Hookham - 1922 - 164 pagina’s
...Bacon and Shakespeare. He tells us, in another of the Discoveries, that Bacon was ' a noble speaker, full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jesf)1 was nobly censorious.' Compare this with the passage just quoted — ' excellent phantasy, brave... | |
 | Geraldine Emma Hodgson - 1923 - 328 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 was...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more presly,1 more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
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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... 
