 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...  Critical and historical essays - Page 351by Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 490 pages
...idleness in what he utter'd. His hearers could not cough, or looke aside from him, without losse. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry...no man had their affections more in his power. The feare of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end8." This character is from Ben Jonson's... | |
 | John Britton - 1808 - 882 pages
...idelness, in what he uttered. His bearers could not cough, or looke aside from him without losse. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry...no man had their affections more in his power. The feare of every man that hearde him was, lest he should make an end." Another very fine portrait of... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 414 pages
...cough or look aside " froin him without loss. He commanded where he spoke : and had his"judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections...that heard him was lest he " should make an end." See Ben Jensen's Discoveries. The author of this book is to be distinguished from Sir Thomas Pope Blount,... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 424 pages
...cough or look aside " from him withost loss. He commanded where he spoke : and had his "judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections...fear of every man that heard him was lest he " should mafce an ead.'r See Sen Jcwotfs Discoveries* The author of this book is to be distinguished from Sir... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 pages
...consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. Scriptorum Catalogus* — Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equalled to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...bat consisted of the own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded, where he spoke; and had his judges angry...man that heard him, was, lest he should make an end. Lord Egerton, the Chancellor, a great and grave orator, 8cc. But his learned and able (though unfortunate)... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...but consisted of the own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded, where he spoke ; and had his judges angry...man that heard him, was, lest he should make an end. Lord Egerton, the Chancellor, a great and grave orator, 8cc. But his learned and able (though nnfortunatn)... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." As a Patron, he considered preferment a sacred trust, to preserve and promote high feeling, encourage... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 pages
...but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry...man that heard him was lest he should make an end. (/) Take for instance any of the Nervous Aphorisms, in the Novum Organum, and compare it with the sentences... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 528 pages
...but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry...man that heard him was lest he should make an end. (f) Take for instance any of the Nervous Aphorisms, in the Novum Organum, and compare it with the sentences... | |
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