...alone; for never 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 '...could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No ' man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily, ' or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...

...Dominus Verulanus, whom we call without any warrant whatsoever " Lord Bacon," with these words : " 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 presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...

...eulogy to help the sale of a book, gives us this graphic description of Bacon's eloquence: — 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, suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...

...which all doctrine is chaff." " 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 spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less...

...when in exercise are thinking as he said. Ben Jonson wrote regarding the effect of Bacon's oratory: 'No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more...suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.'40 But the judgment is no less true of Bacon as writer than as speaker. Walter Raleigh according...

...contained Ben Jonson's famous description of his manner of speaking, l shall insert it here: — " Tet 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,...

...addition, as when he cites Ben Jonson, who (differing notably from this critic) recalled that Bacon's language, 'where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious', and relays it to his students as: 'as Ben Jonson pointed out, Bacon couldn't resist a joke, especially...

...great respect for Francis Bacons concise and precise style. "No man," claims Jonson in Discoveries, "ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered" (lines 1098—1100). What he also admired was Bacons scientific inductive method of inquiry. Even though...