| George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 páginas
...Exemplary Oratory. — Ben Jonson writes of Bacon, in his "Discoveries made upon Men and Matter": — "There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. Ho man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1881 - 386 páginas
...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 full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly,... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1881 - 868 páginas
...admirable judge to assure us that Bacon's oratory was worthy of his other powers. Ben Jonson thus writes: "There happened, in my time, one noble speaker, who was full of giavity in his speaking. His language, where ho could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious.... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 páginas
...bears the fullest testimony to his exalted oratorical powers. " 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, more weightily, or suffered less... | |
| Frederick Charles Moncreiff - 1882 - 204 páginas
...represent a speaker as nearly as possible perfect. "There happened in my time," says that elegant writer, " one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his...His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less... | |
| Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 128 páginas
...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... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 páginas
...Parliament in 1584 and distinguished himself as a speaker. Ben Jonson, the dramatist, says of him : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 páginas
...Parliament in 1584 and distinguished himself as a speaker. Ben Jonson, the dramatist, says of him : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 páginas
...of his that we understand the full force of Ben Jonson's famous eulogium. "He 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 prestly, more weightily, or suffered less... | |
| Frank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin - 1914 - 690 páginas
...striking out its purple patches of "fine writing." Here is Ben Jonson's description of Bacon's language: "There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speech. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less... | |
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