 | 1872 - 556 Seiten
...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, less idleness,...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 where he spoke;... | |
 | 1872 - 612 Seiten
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...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 where he spoke,... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1909 - 172 Seiten
...could spare and pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his (its) own graces. . . . The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end. From Macaulay:... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 Seiten
...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, 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, nor look aside from him, without loss. He commanded when he spoke,... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 378 Seiten
...gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...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 where he spoke.'"... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 Seiten
...an orator without oratory. "No man," said Ben Jonson, "ever spoke more neatly, more (com)pressedly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1996 - 464 Seiten
...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, less idleness,...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 where he spoke... | |
 | Perez Zagorin - 1998 - 318 Seiten
...orator by his friend the poet Ben Jonson, who wrote that "no man ever spoke more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. . . . His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke,... | |
 | Peter Dawkins - 2004 - 159 Seiten
...bombastic actor Shakespeare. About Bacon, Jonson also says: No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...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 where he spoke,... | |
 | Tijana Stojković - 2006 - 248 Seiten
...concise and precise style. "No man," claims Jonson in Discoveries, "ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered" (lines 1098—1100). What he also admired was Bacons scientific inductive method of inquiry. Even though... | |
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No man ever spake 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... 
