Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (when 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,... The Works of Francis Bacon - Página 11por Francis Bacon - 1858Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Sir Philip Sidney - 1787 - 158 páginas
...imitated alone : for no imitator, evergrew up to his author; likenefs is always orT*truTfille.truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble Speaker, who was full of gravity in his fpeaking. His language (where he could fpare, or pafs by a jeft) was nobly cenfoiious. No man ever... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1806 - 490 páginas
...rhetorical powers is cited by Aubrey : " There happened in my time one noble speaker, Dominus Verulamus, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or passe by a jest) was nobly censorious; no man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 páginas
...his mind, Jonson was peculiarly qualified to form a competent judgment. " There happened," says he, " in my time, one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 páginas
...his mind, Jonson was peculiarly qualified to form a competent judgment. " There happened," says he, " in my time, one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 páginas
...his mind, Jonson was peculiarly qualified to form a competent judgment. " There happened," says he, " in my time, one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 páginas
...mind. As a specimen of oratory, let us take the oratory of Lord Bacon, as described by Ben Jonson : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more mightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835 - 564 páginas
...remarkable one : its discrimination and its raciness give weight to the opinion which it expresses : • There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prisly,... | |
| 1835 - 1102 páginas
...remarkable one : its discrimination and its raciness give weight to the opinion which it expresses: ' There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prisly,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 páginas
...author. " There happened in my time," says the learned poet, " one noble speaker, the Lord Verulam, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1841 - 624 páginas
...imitated alone ; for no imitator ever grew up to hie author : likeness \s nlways on this side of truth ; yet there happened In my time one noble speaker, who...his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pats by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily,... | |
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