 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1892 - 342 páginas
...more needed than any place I know." It may be said of Mr. Bright as Ben Jonson said of Lord Bacon, " There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressingly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 934 páginas
...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...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, mote pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 páginas
...his author ; likeness is always on 10 this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble i IN> speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking ;...nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less 15 idleness, in what he uttered. No member... | |
 | 1915 - 556 páginas
...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... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 páginas
...; for never no imitator ever grew up to his author ; likeness is always on 10 this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker who was...language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, wasjiobly £ensorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 534 páginas
...House of Commons, to the debates in which strangers were then rarely admitted : BEN JONSON UPON BACON. There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | 1903 - 360 páginas
...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,...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own grace. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke."... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe, John William Allen - 1903 - 380 páginas
...censorious,' his speaking full of gravity. ' No man ever spoke more neatly, more presly [succinctly], more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearer could not cough, or look aside from him. without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had... | |
 | John Hawley Stotsenburg - 1904 - 556 páginas
...powers and ability, which are taken from contemporary writers. Ben Jonson thus eulogizes him : "Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more precisely, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | 1905 - 958 páginas
...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...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke 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,... 
