 | 1879 - 634 σελίδες
...graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he Bpoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion....man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.' The influence thus conferred by genius was strengthened by diligence. From the day he took his seat... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1879 - 836 σελίδες
...him without loss ; he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." In the spring of 1594 the solicitorship became vacant, by the promotion of Sir Edward Coke to the office... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 234 σελίδες
...idleness in what he (87) F uttered. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." In 1597 Bacon published a small volume of essays, which was afterwards enlarged by successive additions... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 668 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.... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 σελίδες
...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of the owne graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside...man that heard him, was, lest he should make an end. i Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of ' Rome had equalled to their Empire. Ingenium... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 σελίδες
...more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . . The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." When Elizabeth died, Bacon saw his way open. He offered his His Triumph . ., services to the royal... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 σελίδες
...§ 6; Excerp. Controa., III, Pr. § 4; ibid., 1-3. 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. Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equalled to their empire. Ingenium par... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1926 - 326 σελίδες
...man had their affections more in his power " ; " nemo non illo dicente timebat ne desineret," or " the fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end " ; " quamdiu citra jocos se continebat, censoria oratio erat," or, as Jonson says of the noble speaker,... | |
 | Thomas Case - 1927 - 308 σελίδες
...speech but consisted of his own graces. ' His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, with' out loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his ' judges...' that heard him was, lest he should make an end.' After further saying of Bacon, under the heading ' Scriptorum Catalogus ', that' he may be named and... | |
 | Sir William Hale-White - 1927 - 64 σελίδες
...more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . . No man had their affections more in his power. The...man that heard him was lest he should make an end" [54]. His secretary and apothecary, Boener, hoped that a statue of him would be put up, not because... | |
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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,... 
