 Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness,...  Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ... - Էջ 26խմբագրել է - 1908 - 376 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1848 - 24 էջ
...specimen of oratory, let us take the oratory of Lord Bacon, as described by Ben Jonson : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more mightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
 | 1848 - 780 էջ
...specimen of oratory, let us take the oratory of Lord Bacon, as described by Ben Jonson : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more mightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 536 էջ
...Jonson pronounced on Lord Bacon's speaking may be justly applied to Samuel Adams. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speech. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 էջ
...according to his friend, Ben Jonson, who thus speaks of his parliamentary eloquence: "There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in hie speaking : his language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever... | |
 | 1848 - 786 էջ
...oratory, let us take the oratory of Lord Bacon, as described by Ben Jonson : " There happened in mj time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more mightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
 | 1849 - 602 էջ
...listened to him with delight, and who was highly qualified to judge of his pretensions. " There happened it slept awhile ! 'Gainst the glad heaven, (fertile while palace-front, The interrupted he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious (censor-like) ; no man ever spake more neatly,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 688 էջ
...listened to him with delight, and who was highly qualified to judge of his pretensions. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious (censor-like) no man ever spake more neatly,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 էջ
...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 full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever : spoke more neatly, morepressly,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 էջ
...according to his friend, Ben Jonson, who thus speaks of his parliamentary eloquence : " There happened weakness both ; and take one from the other, light of invention, and not fire of contradic he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly , more pressly,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 էջ
...that he should retain his seat in the Lower House. " There happened in my time," says Ben Jonson, " one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly,... | |
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