 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1866 - 716 pages
...speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily ; or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his...aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and the fear of every man that heard him was that he should make an end." To this attractive... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered./' No member of his speech bn* consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...censorious. 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. He commanded where... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Biography - 1938 - 326 pages
...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 - Computers - 1915 - 790 pages
...nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, 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, nor look aside from him, without loss. He commanded when... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - Authors, American - 1882 - 378 pages
...censorious. 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. He commanded where... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | Will Durant - Biography & Autobiography - 1965 - 736 pages
...Ben Jonson, "ever spoke more neatly, more (com)pressedly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his...aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke. . . . No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was... | |
 | Thomas Conley - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 336 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 464 pages
...censorious. No man ever spake 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... | |
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No man ever spake 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... 
