| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 882 páginas
...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... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 páginas
...censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, lese 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 where... | |
| George Bradshaw - 1858 - 652 páginas
...admirer, as he calls himself. " Ño man," says Ben Jonson, " ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily; or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . . His hearers could not look aside from him without loss. ... No man had their affections more... | |
| 1858 - 878 páginas
...admirable. As Ben Jonson said of his speeches in Parliament, " No man ever spake more neatly, more briefly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered." Never, surely, was truth more closely packed, or conveyed in language more pithy, nervous, and striking.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 páginas
...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 uside from him without loss. He commanded where... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 páginas
...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. lie commanded where... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 páginas
...ji'st. wag nobly censorious. No man ever Kpoke more neatly, more pressly. more weightily, or RufTered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speoch but consisted of bis own ••.r:nv>. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 512 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 páginas
...could spare or pass by a jest, was ttobly 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... | |
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