Yet there 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. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness,... A System of Rhetoric - Стр. 517авторы: Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - Страниц: 673Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - Страниц: 454
...noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or...from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke." Those who heard him while their natures were yet plastic, and their mental nerves trembled under the... | |
| William Mathews - 1876 - Страниц: 322
...aphorisms. Ben Jonson, a severe judge, who was chary of his praise, tells us that "no man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. The fear of every man who heard... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - Страниц: 898
...speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers couJd not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges... | |
| 1877 - Страниц: 510
...jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. Hi* hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and bad... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1878 - Страниц: 444
...when he could spare or pass a jest, waa nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more preesly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...hearers could not cough or look aside from him without lose. He commanded where he spoko, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had... | |
| Mark Twain - 1909 - Страниц: 172
...°^ His language, where he could spare and pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...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:... | |
| Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1938 - Страниц: 326
...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 - Страниц: 790
...pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he...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 - Страниц: 378
...speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered...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... | |
| Will Durant - 1965 - Страниц: 736
...an orator without oratory. "No man," said Ben Jonson, "ever spoke more neatly, more (com)pressedly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...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... | |
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