 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...  English Prose: Selections - Page 12edited by - 1894Full view - About this book
 | William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 pages
...suffered less emptiness, 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 he spoke, and the fear of every man that heard him was that he should make an end." To this attractive... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 pages
...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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 370 pages
...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...or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion [that is, at his will]. No man... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...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...or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pages
...his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No n:an had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man who heard him was lest he should... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1938 - 326 pages
...have Bacon. Ben Jonson's testimony of Bacon's eloquence as an advocate is decisive. Ben Jonson said,1 "His hearers could not cough or look aside from him...had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard him was that he should make an end." Of his mastery of the law his... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 pages
...man 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 his own graces. His hearers could not cough, nor look aside from him, without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 378 pages
...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...or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke.'" Mr. Lowell gives a vivid description of the effect produced by Emerson's speech at... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...sustained attention. Ben Jonson paid tribute to these powers of presentation in Bacon's public speeches: 'His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 pages
...suffered less emptiness, 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 he spoke. . . . No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard... | |
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