 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 Seiten
...recognition of one, who had an eye to see, an ear to hear, and a soul to comprehend : says Ben Jonson, " 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 neatly, more... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke - 1869 - 406 Seiten
...time, one noble speaker (Lord Verulam), 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 prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 450 Seiten
...to him who fulmined over Greece. I can never help applying to him what Ben Jonson said of Bacon : " There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 Seiten
...has described 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 neatly, more pressly,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1871 - 634 Seiten
...no Imitator, ever grew up to his Author \ Hkenesse is alwayes on this side Truth : Yet there hapn'd, in my time, one noble Speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, (where hee could spare, or passe by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more... | |
 | 1872 - 556 Seiten
...imitated alone ; for no imitator ever grew up to his author ; likeness is always on this side truth. 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 Seiten
...imitated alone ; for no imitator ever grew up to his author; likeness ¡s always on this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His Iang-iiagc (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 Seiten
...has described 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 neatly, more pressly,... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 Seiten
...this, Bacon was more cautious. As an orator he received the commendation of old Ben Jonson, who says, " 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 si>:ike more neatly, more... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 Seiten
...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, less idleness in what... | |
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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,... 
