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" ... 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. He commanded where... "
The Great Oyer of Poisoning: The Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the ... - Page 466
by Andrew Amos - 1846 - 551 pages
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 18

American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and e pleased ; and, for want of riches, people grow every day less solicitous to please me. Ther that heard him was, lest he should make an end."f * Milton — Account of big own studies. t Beu Jonson's...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 26

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1849 - 688 pages
...loss. He commanded * Milton— Account of his own studies. where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end." • There is no doubt that the evening of Bacon's...
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...could not cough or look aside without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and better than" chief, but be seconds, and under the direction of others. For in counsel, it i that heard him was, lest he should make an end." We are now to contemplate Bacon in the civil character...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and that heard him was lest he should make an end." As a Patron, he considered preferment a sacred trust,...
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Critical and Historical Essays: Lord Bacon. Sir William Temple. Gladstone on ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 338 pages
...cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." From the mention which is made of judges, it would...
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The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 510 pages
...cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his Judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man who heard him was lest he should make an end."* So intoxicated was Bacon with the success of his first...
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The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 504 pages
...cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his Judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man who heard him was lest he should make an end."^ So intoxicated was Bacon with the success of his first...
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A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 4

George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 504 pages
...passed by Ben Jonson on Lord Verulam : — " He commanded when he spoke ; he had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power ; and the fear of every man that heard him was lest he should come to an end.'' In general politics,...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...could not cough or look aside without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and ey will abandon the good of their affairs. Wisdom for a man's self is in many branches thereof that heard him was, lest he should make an end." We are now to contemplate Bacon in the civil character...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 34

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 pages
...cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke., and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man who heard him was lest he should make an end." In politics, however, he made a perilous attempt to please...
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