 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 562 páginas
...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...had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should... | |
 | George Lewis Prentiss - 1861 - 398 páginas
...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 from him without loss." The main topic of his address at this time was the SubTreasury scheme, to whose recent defeat his own... | |
 | 1861 - 878 páginas
...pregnant imagery of the Ü? Aufjmentis or the Л ovum Or'uun ; dazzled by accounts of the .nal orator who "commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion ;"* of the philosophic lawyer whose plans of reform have even yet to be thoroughly arried out ; few... | |
 | 1862 - 490 páginas
...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...had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1938 - 326 páginas
...have Bacon. Ben Jonson's testimony of Bacon's eloquence as an advocate is decisive. Ben Jonson said,1 "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 his devotion. The fear of every man that heard... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 páginas
...more pressly, more weightily, 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, nor look aside from him, without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 378 páginas
...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...him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke.'" Mr. Lowell gives a vivid description of the effect produced by Emerson's speech at the Burns Centenary... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 páginas
...sustained attention. Ben Jonson paid tribute to these powers of presentation in Bacon's public speeches: 'His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him,...had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power' [I, 13-14]. 16 Dialectic and method in the sixteenth... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 páginas
...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...from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke. . . . No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest... | |
 | Thomas Conley - 1994 - 336 páginas
...masters of it. Bacon's eloquence on the floor of Parliament, Ben Jonson reports, was so powerful that "his hearers could not cough or look aside from him...without loss. He commanded where he spoke . . . [and] the fear of every man who heard him was lest he should make an end."10 Readers of his Essays often... | |
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His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should... 
