 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.  Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Work ... - Page 17by Thomas Martin - 1835 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New general biographical dictionary - 1857 - 528 pages
...in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking ; his language, when he would spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more preesly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered : no member of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, lese idleness, in what... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1858 - 652 pages
...church, by Sir T. Meautys, or Mewtis, his admirer, as he calls himself. " Ño man," says Ben Jonson, " ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily;...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . . His hearers could not look aside from him without loss. ... No man had their affections more... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 pages
...There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | 1858 - 878 pages
...admirable. As Ben Jonson said of his speeches in Parliament, " No man ever spake more neatly, more briefly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered." Never, surely, was truth more closely packed, or conveyed in language more pithy, nervous, and striking.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 pages
...bear to be quoted again. "There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in hij speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1028 pages
...happened in my time ODG noble speaker who was fn]I of gravity in his speaking. His language, »hen ho could spare or ¡ pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more I neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, I less idleness, in... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 pages
...ji'st. wag nobly censorious. No man ever Kpoke more neatly, more pressly. more weightily, or RufTered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speoch but consisted of bis own ••.r:nv>. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or paps by a Jest) was nobly censorious. No tuan ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, letl idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearerscould... | |
 | Arthur Lloyd Windsor - 1860 - 428 pages
...qualifications. Such a speaker must always have possessed an undue influence on such a listener: " His language, where he could spare, or pass by a jest,...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. _ 1 1238, 24—2 No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough... | |
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