| Thomas Conley - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 336 pages
...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 464 pages
...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 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... | |
| Perez Zagorin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 318 pages
...neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. . . . His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him,...without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had hisjudges angry or pleased at his devotion. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...answer hath been 'Would he had blotted a thousand'. 5261 limber, or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter must go down to the sea again, * a clear call that may not be deni 5262 Timber, or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak,... | |
| Peter Dawkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 159 pages
...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....without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had us angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every... | |
| Emily Hiestand, Ande Zellman - Literary Collections - 2004 - 186 pages
...what Ben Jonson said of Francis Bacon could be said of Curley (or "Cuh-lee," as he pronounced it): "The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." This was the "eddie-fying" Curlcy who left school to support his family after the death of his father,... | |
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