 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 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." Two great parties at court sought power and royal favor ; one was headed by Bacon's uncle and cousin,... | |
 | 1874 - 1178 pages
...contemporaries. Of a saying of Lord Bacon, it was said, ' The fear of every man that heard him.was lest he should make an end.' Clarendon's pages teem...ability of the highest order. The leading speakers were earnest, plain, and practical, rather than 'rhetorical and declamatory." No one spoke more powerfully... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1874 - 1076 pages
...member of the House of Commons, and his judgment and eloquence at once brought him to the front. " The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end," Ben Jonson tells us. The steady growth of his reputation was quickened by the appearance of his " Essays,"... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 558 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. LXXIX. * Scriptorum Catalogus.* — Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equalled... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 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. LXXIX. Scriptorum Catalogus.* — Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equalled... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and Lad his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man...man that heard him, was lest he should make an end. ' On the promotion of Sir Edward Coke to be attorneygeneral, in 1594, Bacon became a candidate for... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1875 - 912 pages
...member of the House of Commons, and his judgment and eloquence at once brought him to the front. " The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end," Ben Jonson tells us. The steady growth of his reputation was quickened by the appearance of his " Essays,"... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weighty, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what...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.... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1876 - 900 pages
...orator, he was much commended by his contemporaries. Ben Jonson said that while he was speaking, " the fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." The earl of Essex had been his friend and benefactor ; but when that rash and unfortunate nobleman... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 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. De Augmentis Scientiarwm?—Julius Ccesar.—Lord St All1an.—I have ever observed it to have been... | |
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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... 
