...purposes of discussion, the important function of appeals to emotion is left out of consideration. more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...uttered ; no member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss : he commanded when...

..."There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speech. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his discretion." Such...

..."There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speech. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his discretion." Such...

...Jonson's tribute to a great contemporary: "There happened in my time one noble speaker. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily or suffered...member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. He commanded where he spoke." This gracious command of hearers and of theme, which enlisted our large...

...Jonson's tribute to a great contemporary: "There happened in my time one noble speaker. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily or suffered...member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. He commanded where he spoke." This gracious command of hearers and of theme, which enlisted our large...

...letters. He was also a good speaker. Ben Jonson said of him : " He was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more...graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside frqm him, without loss. He commanded where he spake; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion....

..."There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speech. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his discretion." Such...

...orator: His language, where he could spare and pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his (its) own graces. . . . The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end. From Macaulay:...

...where he could spare and pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, morv pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness,...he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted u his (its) own graces. . . . The fear of every man that heard htm was lest he should make an end....

...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...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of the owne graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where...