 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 pages
...look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased »t his devotion. No man had their affections more In...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,... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1878 - 214 pages
...emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end." — Ben Jonson. I. — Editions and References. 1. Hudson's Text-Book of Prose. Contains twenty-eight... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1878 - 524 pages
...member of the House of Commons, and his judgement 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 in 1597 by the appearance of... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1879 - 448 pages
...weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech hut consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not...that heard him was lest he should make an end."— Sen Joneon, referring to Bacon. honest compliment to the Queen, until old age, when he surrendered... | |
 | 1879 - 634 pages
...graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he Bpoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion....man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.' The influence thus conferred by genius was strengthened by diligence. From the day he took his seat... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1879 - 836 pages
...him without loss ; he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." In the spring of 1594 the solicitorship became vacant, by the promotion of Sir Edward Coke to the office... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 234 pages
...idleness in what he (87) F uttered. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." In 1597 Bacon published a small volume of essays, which was afterwards enlarged by successive additions... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 668 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.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 828 pages
...could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more press! y, 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.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weighty, t than he came in (for I would not have him so much...this mnta persona, I take to have been more happy From the mention which is made of judges, it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the Bar.... | |
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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... 
