 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...described Bacon's eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. (*' There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 432 pages
...often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was fall of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more prcssly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 pages
...happened in my time one noble speaker (Lord Verulam) who was full of gravity in his speaking. Hi» language, where he could spare or pass by a jest,...nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prest ly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what lie littered. No member... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...recognition of one, who had an eye to see, an ear to hear, and a soul to comprehend : says Ben Jonson, " There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 370 pages
...judge, but " rare Ben Jonson," pays him a noble eulogium : " There happened in my time," he says, " 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,... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke - 1869 - 406 pages
...illustration of the passage from Milton. ' There happened in my time, one noble speaker (Lord Verulam), who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language...nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 pages
...has described Bacon's eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 450 pages
...listening to him who fulmined over Greece. I can never help applying to him what Ben Jonson said of Bacon : " There happened in my time one noble speaker,...was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1871 - 634 pages
...no Imitator, ever grew up to his Author \ Hkenesse is alwayes on this side Truth : Yet there hapn'd, in my time, one noble Speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, (where hee could spare, or passe by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more presly,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1871 - 678 pages
...noble Speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His 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, les,se idlenesse, in what hee utter'd. No member... | |
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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... 
