 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 504 pages
...compliment passed by Ben Jonson on Lord Verulam : — " He commanded when he spoke ; he had his judges angry and 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 should come to an end.'' In general politics,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...hearers could not cough or look aside without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges respect they will abandon the good of their affairs. Wisdom for a man's self is in man fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end." We are now to contemplate Bacon... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...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 make an end. My conceit of his person was never... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where ho spoke ; and had his judges augry a; n I pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was, lest ho should make an end. My conceit of his person was never... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 pages
...judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had fheir afl'ections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." From the mention which is made of /Wire», it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...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 make an end. \flr .-lltli'nii r*f L1L- ,1,,,-L-fi«... | |
 | John Leifchild - 1857 - 110 pages
...could not cough, nor look aside from him without loss. He commanded when 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 one that heard him was that he should make an end." The very circumstance of its being... | |
 | John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 pages
...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 who heard him was lest he should make an end." b So intoxicated was Bacon with the... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 pages
...could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges, angry and pleased, at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 pages
...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 make an end.' Clarendon's pages teem with proof... | |
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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... 
