 | William Cabell Rives - 1845 - 88 pàgines
...noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...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 - 1846 - 782 pàgines
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, uside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1846 - 598 pàgines
...suffered less emptiness, or less idleness in what he uttered. Xo 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 he spake; and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1846 - 574 pàgines
...censorious. No man ever spoke more greatly, more precisely, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, or less idleness in what he 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pàgines
...or pass hy a jest, was nohly censorious [censorlike]. No man ever spake more neatly, more prcssly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No memher of his speech hut consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pàgines
...every 'reader is its Aulness of matter. Jonson, as we have seen, has said of '^aeon's speaking, that his hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss ; neither can his readers remit their attention for a sentence, or for a clause of a sentence, without... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 584 pàgines
...celebrated. The panegyric pronounced by Ben Jonson upon Bacon was applied to him — that "he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry or 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... | |
 | 1846 - 506 pàgines
...such an attempt as this to popularize a Great Writer :— " Jonson has said of Bacon's speaking, that his hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss ; neither can his readers remit their attention for a sentence, or for a clause of a sentence, without... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pàgines
...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, less idleness,...commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. 'The fear of every man... | |
 | 1847 - 650 pàgines
...every reader is its fulness of matter. Jonson, as we have seen, has said of Bacon's speaking, that his hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss ; neither can his readers remit their attention for a sentence, or for a clause of a sentence, without... | |
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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,... 
