 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 Seiten
...judge, has described his 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 Treasurer for the admonition, and promised to profit by it. Strangers meanwhile were less unjust to... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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 lie could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 Seiten
...judge, has described his 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,... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1857 - 562 Seiten
...lie ascribed to his stately but energetic eloquence, thus described by his friend, Ben Jonson : — " There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...full of gravity in his speaking ; his language, when be would spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 880 Seiten
...contained Ben Jonson's famous description of his manner of speaking, I shall insert it here: — " 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 - 1848 - 786 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... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 846 Seiten
...judge to assure us that Bacon's oratory was worthy of his other powers. Ben Junson thus writes : " 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,... | |
 | John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 Seiten
...that he should retain his seat in the Lower House. " There happened in my time," says Ben Jonson, " 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,... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 Seiten
...and eloquence were universally recognised by his contemporaries. Ben Jonson writes thus of Bacon : ' There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less... | |
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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,... 
