 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 páginas
...ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less empti ness, less idleness, ill what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted...graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from liim without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.... | |
 | Arthur Lloyd Windsor - 1860 - 428 páginas
...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, in what he uttered. 1 1238. 24—2 No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 páginas
...he 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,...commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had Jieir affections more in his power. The fear of every mart... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1938 - 326 páginas
...have Bacon. Ben Jonson's testimony of Bacon's eloquence as an advocate is decisive. Ben Jonson said,1 "His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 páginas
...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he...consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, nor look aside from him, without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 378 páginas
...gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke.'" Mr. Lowell gives a vivid description of the effect produced by Emerson's speech at the Burns Centenary... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 páginas
...sustained attention. Ben Jonson paid tribute to these powers of presentation in Bacon's public speeches: 'His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him,...commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power' [I, 13-14]. 16 Dialectic... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 páginas
...an orator without oratory. "No man," said Ben Jonson, "ever spoke more neatly, more (com)pressedly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where... | |
 | Thomas Conley - 1994 - 336 páginas
...masters of it. Bacon's eloquence on the floor of Parliament, Ben Jonson reports, was so powerful that "his hearers could not cough or look aside from him...without loss. He commanded where he spoke . . . [and] the fear of every man who heard him was lest he should make an end."10 Readers of his Essays often... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1996 - 464 páginas
...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, less idleness,...commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man bad And aa he was a good servant to his master, being never in... | |
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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,... 
