 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,...  Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome - Page 354by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 898 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 464 pages
...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, who was...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, morepressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...powerful advocate, according to his friend, Ben Jonson, who thus speaks of his parliamentary eloquence : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...or pass by a jest was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 pages
...alone ; for no imitator ever grew up to his author : likeness is always on this side of truth ; yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Law - 1827 - 528 pages
...alone ; for no imitator ever grew up to his author : likeness is always on this side of truth ; yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...powerful advocate, according to his friend, Ben Jonson, who thus speaks of his parliamentary eloquence : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...or pass by a jest was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...a capacious rather than a subtle mind. Ben Jonson, a most unexceptionable judge, has described his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will...spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suf' fered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No mem'ber of his speech but consisted... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 382 pages
...trade, the colonies and the court ; and of his parliamentary eloquence his friend Ben Jonson says, " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...a capacious rather than a, subtle mind. Ben Jonson, a most unexceptionable judge, has described his eloquence in words, which, though often quoted, will...nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressfy, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...soon became distinguished as an orator and debater. " There happened in my time," says Ben Jonson, " one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking....pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, leas idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...had often listened to him with delight, and who was highly qualified to judge of his pretensions. " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was...could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious (censor-like) ; no man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness,... | |
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