 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...  Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight - 98 페이지저자: Half hours - 1856전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Arthur Lloyd Windsor - 1860 - 428 페이지
...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 him was, lest he should make an end."1 The settlement of the new religious regulation opened up the sluices of history, and afforded... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 422 페이지
...eommanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at hia devotion. No man had their affeetions more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." From the mention whieh is made ofjudges, it would seem that Jonson had heard Baeon only at the bar.... | |
 | 1862 - 490 페이지
...own graces. 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...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." Nor does he seem to have been less wonderful as a table-talker. " His meals," says Dr. Rawley, " were... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 페이지
...own graces. 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...person was never increased toward him by his place or honors, but I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that... | |
 | Paul Jacquinet - 1863 - 160 페이지
...His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. <i He commanded where he spok ; and had his judges angry and « pleased at his devotion....No man had their affections more in his « power. » Ben Jonson, Discoveries ; Dominas Verutamius. quidem poetarum, sed minus obvium, oracula sapientiae... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 페이지
...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 at his...every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.2 Tobie Matthew, who knew him perhaps more intimately than any one of his friends, describes him... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 페이지
...speeches: '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' [I, 13-14]. 16 Dialectic and method in the sixteenth century The development of dialectic in the sixteenth... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 페이지
...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 that he should make an end."15 Enviable orator! One powerful friend was generous to him — that handsome... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 페이지
...at his best. When he rose to speak, the crowded benches were quiet. We have Ben Jonson's testimony: "The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end." The light quick voice was no longer hurried; a speaker can learn the tricks of good delivery. The lines... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1996 - 464 페이지
...own graces. 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 bad And aa he was a good servant to his master, being never in nineteen years' service (as himself... | |
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