 | Sir Philip Sidney - 1787 - 158 pages
...face of the former. Indeed, the more we confer with, the more we profit by, if the perfons be chofen. One, though he be excellent, and the chief, is not to be imitated alone : for no imitator, evergrew up to his author; likenefs is always orT*truTfille.truth. Yet there happened in my time one... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 pages
...Indeed, the more we confer with, the more we profit by, if the persons be choseu. Dominus Vendamius. — One, though he be excellent, and the chief, is not...up to his author ; likeness is always on this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1823 - 432 pages
...former. Indeed, the more (persons) we confer with, the more we profit by, if they be well chosen. 3. One though he be excellent, and the chief, is not...truth. Yet there happened in my time, one noble speaker (Lord Chancellor Bacon) who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1827 - 526 pages
...granted to love and to be wise," I stop. (e) Ben Jonson in his Discoveries says, Dominus Verulamius. One though he be excellent, and the chief, is not...this side of truth ; yet there happened in my time onu noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...mind. As a specimen of oratory, let us take the oratory of Lord Bacon, as described by Ben Jonson : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more mightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 612 pages
...are MSS. in the British Museum. 1 !»• n Jnneon fn hie Discoveries saya, Dominas Vertilamiue. — not the only persuader of those great offences which...they had committed; but that Blunt, Cuffe, Temple, Ыа author : likenesi is always on this side of truth ; yet there happened in my time one noble speaker}... | |
 | 1872 - 862 pages
...tradition, no rational doubt can be entertained of their excellence. Ben Jonson writes thus of Bacon: — " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in bis speaking. His language, when he could spare or pass by a jest, wag nobly censorious. No man ever... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...long as he would live, which was so ; he lived till 1646. — AUBRET. CHARACTER OF LORD BACON. — One, though he be excellent, and the chief, is not...up to his author ; likeness is always on this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His... | |
 | 1848 - 792 pages
...mind. As a specimen of oratory, let us take the oratory of Lord Bacon, as described by Ben Jonson : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more mightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1848 - 24 pages
...mind. As a specimen of oratory, let us take the oratory of Lord Bacon, as described by Ben Jonson : " There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more mightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,... | |
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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,... 
