 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
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...powerful advocate, 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... | |
 | Theology - 1848 - 786 pages
...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...trade, the colonies, and the court; and of his parliamentary eloquence his friend Ben Jonson says, " or the suppressing and bridling the rest. For as in...one faction with another, so i* is in the governm No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 338 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...could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever : spoke more neatly, morepressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...author. " There happened in my time," says the learned poet, " one noble speaker, the Lord Verxilam, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 504 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,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 510 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,... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...judge, has described his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " other sections of the Opposition — with the little No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1854 - 430 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 full of gravity in his Treasurer for the admonition, and promised to profit by it. Strangers meanwhile were less unjust to... | |
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