 | George Lewis Prentiss - 1861 - 398 pagina’s
...none, and inimitable by any." Or, as rare Ben Jonson wrote of Lord Bacon himself : " No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...uttered ; no member of his speech but consisted of its own graces.- His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him without loss." The main topic... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 422 pagina’s
...in his speaking. His language, where he eerald spare or pass by a jest, was nobly eensorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speeeh but eonsisted of his own graees. His hearers eould not eough or look aside from him without... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1863 - 484 pagina’s
...in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...or look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion."* A grave biographical question,... | |
 | Paul Jacquinet - 1863 - 160 pagina’s
...Pindarum, gravissimum (1) « No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more « weightily, orjsuffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he « uttered....could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. <i He commanded where he spok ; and had his judges angry and « pleased at his devotion. No man had... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 pagina’s
...day," says the famous Ben Jonson, " one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pagina’s
...in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...idleness, in what he uttered./' No member of his speech bn* consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 pagina’s
...neatly, more prest ly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what lie littered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearer» could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 450 pagina’s
...speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...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... | |
 | 1872 - 612 pagina’s
...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, more weightily,...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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 654 pagina’s
...idleness, in what he uttered. No Ш'ммЫт of speech but consisted of bis own graces, Ilishearere could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded when be ppoke. and bad his judges angry or plmsed at hie devotion. No man had their affections more... | |
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Yet 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,... 
