...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...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,...

...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,...

...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...could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...

...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...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,...

...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, who 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...

...celebrated commendation from his friend Ben Jonson: There happened in my time one noble speaker wno 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 j>resly. more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...

...House, where he is more and more looked up to, admired, and respected. " No man," said Ben Jonson, "ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. . . . His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. . . . The fear of every man...

...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, who 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...

...listening to him who fulmincd over Greece. I can never help applying to him what Ben Jonson said of Bacon: "There happened in my time one noble speaker, who 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...

...censoria oratio erat," or, as Jonson says of the noble speaker, with the intimate touch "in my time," "his language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious." Facts such as these at once compel us to revise the criticism which denies Jonson's indebtedness or...