 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 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...would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the Bar. Indeed we imagine that the House of Commons was then almost inaccessible to strangers. It is not... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 484 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.'' Clarendon's pages teem with proof that the period included in his history was marked by debating ability... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 456 pages
...and eloquence were universally recognised by his contemporaries. Ben Jonson writes thus of Bacon : He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry...man that heard him was lest he should make an end.' Clarendon's pages teem with proof that the period included in his history was marked by debating ability... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - 446 pages
...but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not congh or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry...every man that heard him was lest he should make an end."—Sen Jonson, referring to Bacon. 6 honest compliment to the Queen, until old age, when he surrendered... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." Two great parties at court sought power and royal favor ; one was headed by Bacon's uncle and cousin,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 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. LXXIX. Scriptorum Catalogus.* — Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equalled... | |
 | Michael Walsh - 1875 - 98 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...his power. The fear of every man that heard him was that he should make an end". At the very outset of his parliamentary career Bacon acquired considerable... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and Lad his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man...man that heard him, was lest he should make an end. ' On the promotion of Sir Edward Coke to be attorneygeneral, in 1594, Bacon became a candidate for... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 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...would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the Bar. Indeed, we imagine that the House of Commons was then almost inaccessible to strangers. It is... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 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. De Augmentis Scientiarwm?—Julius Ccesar.—Lord St All1an.—I have ever observed it to have been... | |
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