His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should... The Port Folio - Seite 59herausgegeben von - 1801Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Cabell Rives - 1845 - 88 Seiten
...suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside...commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard him was that he should make an end."... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 Seiten
...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...commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 Seiten
...weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No memher of his speech hut consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not...commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at hi( devotion.' No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man... | |
| Andrew Amos - 1846 - 574 Seiten
...suffered less emptiness, or less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of its own graces His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spake ; and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his... | |
| Andrew Amos - 1846 - 598 Seiten
...suffered less emptiness, or less idleness in what he uttered. Xo member of his speech but consisted of its own graces His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spake; and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 Seiten
...more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member k ѓ & x c& =j [S ;a쌂5| v >К1 $ W R0 % V $ +I { A~/ Y @F uside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his... | |
| William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 584 Seiten
...celebrated. The panegyric pronounced by Ben Jonson upon Bacon was applied to him — that "he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power ; and the fear of every man that heard him was lest he... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 Seiten
...every 'reader is its Aulness of matter. Jonson, as we have seen, has said of '^aeon's speaking, that his hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss ; neither can his readers remit their attention for a sentence, or for a clause of a sentence, without... | |
| 1846 - 506 Seiten
...such an attempt as this to popularize a Great Writer :— " Jonson has said of Bacon's speaking, that his hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss ; neither can his readers remit their attention for a sentence, or for a clause of a sentence, without... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 Seiten
...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...commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. 'The fear of every man... | |
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