...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...

...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...