 | William Thomson - 1880 - 382 pages
...his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, 1 without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." It would read almost like a paraphrase on these words to repeat after them the description of a character... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 842 pages
...but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. Ho commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." SIE EDWAED COKE. (1549—1634.) Compliments from the Chair. — Coke, having been elected Speaker of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1881 - 386 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 liar.... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1881 - 336 pages
...he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his discretion. No man had their affections more m his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." As a contrast to Lord Bacon, lake Judge Jeffreys. Jeffreys was perhaps the most singular mixture of... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 pages
...more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . . The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." When Elizabeth died, Bacon saw his way open. He offered his His Triumph . ., services to the royal... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 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. Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equalled to their empire. Ingenium par... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1926 - 326 pages
...man had their affections more in his power " ; " nemo non illo dicente timebat ne desineret," or " the fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end " ; " quamdiu citra jocos se continebat, censoria oratio erat," or, as Jonson says of the noble speaker,... | |
 | Thomas Case - 1927 - 308 pages
...speech but consisted of his own graces. ' His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, with' out loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his ' judges...' that heard him was, lest he should make an end.' After further saying of Bacon, under the heading ' Scriptorum Catalogus ', that' he may be named and... | |
 | Sir William Hale-White - 1927 - 64 pages
...more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. . . . No man had their affections more in his power. The...man that heard him was lest he should make an end" [54]. His secretary and apothecary, Boener, hoped that a statue of him would be put up, not because... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1909 - 172 pages
...idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his (its) own graces. . . . The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end. From Macaulay: He continued to distinguish himself in Parliament, particularly by his exertions in... | |
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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... 
