...likeness is always on this side truth. ' Yet there happened in my time one noble Speaker, who ' was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he...censorious. No ' man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily, ' or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. ' No member...

...whatsoever " Lord Bacon," with these words : " Yet 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...

...love and endeavour to serve him "[S3]Ben Jonson tells lovingly of his virtue and thus of his speech: "No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more...emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . . No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should...

...description of Bacon's eloquence: — Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he...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...

...when in exercise are thinking as he said. Ben Jonson wrote regarding the effect of Bacon's oratory: 'No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more...suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.'40 But the judgment is no less true of Bacon as writer than as speaker. Walter Raleigh according...

...addition, as when he cites Ben Jonson, who (differing notably from this critic) recalled that Bacon's language, 'where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious', and relays it to his students as: 'as Ben Jonson pointed out, Bacon couldn't resist a joke, especially...

...orator by his friend the poet Ben Jonson, who wrote that "no man ever spoke more neatly, more presly, 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,...

...great respect for Francis Bacons concise and precise style. "No man," claims Jonson in Discoveries, "ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered" (lines 1098—1100). What he also admired was Bacons scientific inductive method of inquiry. Even though...