 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,...  The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Page 2301849Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 pages
...judge, has described his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...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,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 pages
...speaks of the eloquence of Lord Bacon: "There happened in my time one noble speaker (Lord Verulam) who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language,...could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly , more weightily, or sutfcred less emptiness, less idleness... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...imitated alone ; for no imitator ever grew up to his author ; 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 lie could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...imitated alone; for no imitator ever grew up to his author; likeness is always on this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 880 pages
...contained Ben Jonson's famous description of his manner of speaking, I shall insert it here: — " Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 846 pages
...judge to assure us that Bacon's oratory was worthy of his other powers. Ben Junson thus writes : " There happened, in my time, one noble speaker, who...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,... | |
 | John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 pages
...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....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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...judge, has described his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, lese idleness,... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 pages
...and eloquence were universally recognised by his contemporaries. Ben Jonson writes thus of Bacon : ' 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
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