...Speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His L language, (where hee could spare, or passe by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffer'd lesse emptinesse, lesse idlenesse, in what hee utter'd. No member...

...commendation from his friend Ben Jonson : There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking; his language, where he...nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of...

...speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (when he could spare or pass by aj est) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly,...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . .' The meaning of this is obvious. The concluding line of the conversation above is borrowed from...

...Timber: " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. ... No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . . The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." When Elizabeth died, Bacon...

...eloquence Jonson said in the "Discoveries" : No man ever spake more neatly, more presly [concisely], more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . . His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke,...

..."There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly,...suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he 1 Arid is the fairy sprite obedient to the commands of Prospero in Shakespeare's Tempest. * Platform....

..."There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly,...suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he 1 Ariel is the fairy sprite obedient to the commands of Prospero in Shakespeare's Tempest. 2 Platform....

...House, where he is more and more looked up to, admired, and respected. " No man," said Ben Jonson, "ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. . . . His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. . . . The fear of every man...

...censoria oratio erat," or, as Jonson says of the noble speaker, with the intimate touch "in my time," "his language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious." Facts such as these at once compel us to revise the criticism which denies Jonson's indebtedness or...

...adequate notion of the artistic tension and fullness of his treatment: "No man ever spake more neatly, more weightily or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered." When a man of letters of Mr. Brownell's eminent talent spends a lifetime in an inflexible pursuit of...