 | 1872 - 556 σελίδες
...to be imitated alone ; for no imitator ever grew up to his author ; likeness is always on this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker,...man that heard him was lest he should make an end. My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 σελίδες
...there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His Iang-iiagc (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place or honors, but I have and do reverence... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 654 σελίδες
...bad his judges angry or plmsed at hie devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. Th» fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." Bacon's principal patron, during this part of his career, was the Earl of Essex. On the downfall of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 σελίδες
...speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." From the mention which is made of judges, it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the Bar.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 484 σελίδες
...speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1874 - 1076 σελίδες
...member of the House of Commons, and his judgment and eloquence at once brought him to the front. " The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end," Ben Jonson tells us. The steady growth of his reputation was quickened by the appearance of his " Essays,"... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 558 σελίδες
...to be imitated alone : for no imitator ever grew up to his author ; likeness is always on this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker,...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... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 σελίδες
...to be imitated alone : for no imitator ever grew up to his author ; likeness is always On this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker,...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... | |
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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,... 
