 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...cough, or look aside from him without loss. lie 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 lie should make an end. ? Take for instance any of the Nervous Aphorisms, in... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1008 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 950 pages
...cough or look aside from liim 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 562 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." — Dtscoveriet: under title Dominas Veruhtmius. am... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 490 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." Nor does he seem to have been less wonderful as a table-talker.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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. My conceit of his person was never increased toward... | |
 | Paul Jacquinet - 1863 - 160 pages
...look aside from him, without loss. <i He commanded where he spok ; and had his judges angry and « pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his « power. » Ben Jonson, Discoveries ; Dominas Verutamius. quidem poetarum, sed minus obvium, oracula sapientiae... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 556 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." — fliscoveries: under title Dumlntu Verulamiui.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 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. My conceit of his person was never increased toward... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 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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... 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... 
