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... The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631): Poetry and prose - Seite 111von Thomas Seccombe, John William Allen - 1903Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Horace Walpole - 1806 - 426 Seiten
...judges angry and pleased at his devotion : no man had their affections more in his power. The feare of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end 8 ." This character is from Ben Jonson's Discoveries. Lord Bacon's domestic habits and method of study... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1806 - 430 Seiten
...judges angry and pleased at his devotion : 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 Discoveries. Lord Bacon's domestic habits and method of... | |
| Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 414 Seiten
...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,... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 Seiten
...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....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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 Seiten
...idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of the own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss....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 - 1818 - 312 Seiten
...idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech bat consisted of the own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss....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 - 1834 - 784 Seiten
...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....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 - 528 Seiten
...less idleness in what he uttered No member of his sp.eech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him without loss....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... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 Seiten
...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....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... | |
| Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 Seiten
...posterity trious author: — " No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss....man that heard him was, lest he should make an end." Mr. Loudon, when treating on the study of plants, observes, that " This wonderful philosopher explored... | |
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