 | 700 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, 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... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 706 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, 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... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1801 - 674 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness. less idleness in what he uttered. No mem* her of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 426 pages
...gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or passe by a jest) was nobly censorious ; no man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptinesse, Icsse idleness in what he utter'd. His hearers could not cough, or looke aside from him,... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 424 pages
...could spare or pass- by a jest, was nobly censorious. No" man ever spoke more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered •* less emptiness, less...uttered. No member of his speech " but consisted of his own grace : His hearers could not cough or look aside " from him withost loss. He commanded where... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 464 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, morepressly, 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more expressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of the own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded, where... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more expressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech bat consisted of the own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 400 pages
...described in the words of Ben Jonson, who, when speaking of Bacon's eloquence in parliament, says, " No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idlenesse in what he uttered. My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1821 - 402 pages
...described in the words of Ben Jonson, who, when speaking of Bacon's eloquence in parliament, says, " Aro man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idtenesse in what he uttered. My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place... | |
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No man ever spake 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... 
