 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pagine
...language, where he could pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside without loss. He... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 pagine
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pagine
...according to his friend, Ben Jonson, who thus speaks of his parliamentary eloquence : " There happened weakness both ; and take one from the other, light of invention, and : his language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 pagine
...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, more...less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 504 pagine
...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, more...less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1851 - 248 pagine
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pyessly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pagine
...his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will bear to be quoted again. " There happened of the Opposition — with the little His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1853 - 528 pagine
...he would spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more preisly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered : no member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him without... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 pagine
...form a competent judgment. "There happened," says he, "in my time, one noble speaker, who was lull of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more...less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pagine
...language, where he could pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, Pompey, are " sui amantes sine rivali," are many times unfortunate. And whereas they have all speech, but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside without loss. He... | |
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No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of [his] own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. 
