 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 strani
...clear from the suggestive exception made by his eulogist Ben Jonson, when speaking of his eloquence : ' his language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious.' Again, it is the recognition of similitudes that originates 1 Works, Vol. iii. p. 519. XXXVI11 Introduction... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 454 strani
...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... | |
 | 1877 - 510 strani
...wonderful power of Lord Bacon, for they are all applicable to Mr. Choate: "There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking....pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less idleness, in what he uttered. No... | |
 | 1877 - 510 strani
...wonderful power of Lord Bacon, for they are all applicable to Mr. Choate : " There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking....pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less idleness, in what he uttered. No... | |
 | Robert Hannah - 1926 - 50 strani
...celebrated commendation from his friend Ben Jonson: There happened in my time one noble speaker wno was full of gravity in his speaking; his language,...nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more j>resly. more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1926 - 666 strani
...House, where he is more and more looked up to, admired, and respected. " No man," said Ben Jonson, "ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,...less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. . . . His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. . . . The fear of every man... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1926 - 326 strani
...censoria oratio erat," or, as Jonson says of the noble speaker, with the intimate touch "in my time," "his language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious." Facts such as these at once compel us to revise the criticism which denies Jonson's indebtedness or... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 strani
...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... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1926 - 380 strani
...adequate notion of the artistic tension and fullness of his treatment: "No man ever spake more neatly, more weightily or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered." When a man of letters of Mr. Brownell's eminent talent spends a lifetime in an inflexible pursuit of... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 strani
...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... | |
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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... 
