 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...GottholdLessing, 1729, Kametz. G. Lord Byron, 1788, London'! There happened in my time one noble speaker. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces....man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. — Jonson's Discoveries. ©tlttS of the Latin Church. St.Tincent, M.atValencia,3Q4. (See Engl. Church... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...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...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 - 1834 - 376 pages
...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...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. The devotion of Sir Nicholas to science may be seen in inscriptions in different parts of his seat... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss : he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at...man that heard him was lest he should make an end.' ' His look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noon-tide air.' * There is reason... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835 - 564 pages
...look asMe from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke; and his judges were pleased and angry at his devotion. No man had their affections more...man that heard him was lest he should make an end. Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equalled to their empire. Jngenium par... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...of his own graces. His hearers 'could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He com' manded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased...that heard him was lest he should make ' an end.' For the mention which is made ofjudges, it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the bar.... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressfy, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." From the mention which is made of judges, it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the bar.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...No member of his speech, but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end." We are now to contemplate Bacon in the civil character which he sustained, as a lawyer. He was compelled... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 pages
...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....man that heard him was lest he should make an end.' From the mention which is made of judges, it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the bar.... | |
 | 1841 - 632 pages
...look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke ; and his judges were pleased or angry at his devotion. No man had their affections more...man that heard him was lest he should make an end. Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equaled in their empire. Ingenium par... | |
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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... 
