 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 in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should...  The Port Folio - Page 59edited by - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 pages
...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...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 that... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 450 pages
...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...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 - 556 pages
...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...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 that... | |
 | 1872 - 612 pages
...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...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 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 without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 pages
...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
...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...him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke.'" Mr. Lowell gives a vivid description of the effect produced by Emerson's speech at the Burns Centenary... | |
 | 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,...commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power' [I, 13-14]. 16 Dialectic... | |
 | 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 him was lest... | |
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