 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...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...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. The devotion of Sir Nicholas to science may be seen in inscriptions in different parts of his seat... | |
 | Thomas Martin - Great Britain - 1835 - 388 pages
...cough or look aside from him without loss: he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections...man that heard him was lest he should make an end.' ' His look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noon-tide air.'* There is reason... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835 - 564 pages
...look asMe from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke; and his judges were pleased and angry at his devotion. No man had their affections more...man that heard him was lest he should make an end. Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equalled to their empire. Jngenium par... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 pages
...passed by Ben Jonson on Lord Verulam : — " He commanded when he spoke ; he had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power ; and the fear of every man that heard him was lest he should come to an end.1' In general politics,... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...cough or look aside from him without loss. He com' manded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at 'his devotion. No man had their affections...that heard him was lest he should make ' an end.' For the mention which is made ofjudges, it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the bar.... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 400 pages
...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...his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lesthe should make an end." As a Patron, he considered preferment a sacred trust, to preserve and promote... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...could not cough or look aside without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end." We are now to contemplate Bacon in the civil character which he sustained, as a lawyer. He was compelled... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...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...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." From the mention which is made of judges, it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the bar.... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pages
...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 mar» that heard him was lest lie should make an end." From the mention which is made of judges, it... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 516 pages
...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...man that heard him was lest he should make an end.' From the mention which is made of judges, it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the bar.... | |
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... 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 commanded where... 
