 | Paul Jacquinet - 1863 - 160 pages
...Pindarum, gravissimum (1) « No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more « weightily, orjsuffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he « uttered....member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. « His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. <i He commanded where he spok... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...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, less idleness,...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 he spoke ; and... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...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 he spoke, and had... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 pages
...noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily ; or suffered less emptiness, less...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered./' No member of his speech bn* consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...could spare, or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...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 he spoke and had... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 370 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...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 he spoke, and had... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke - 1869 - 406 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more prestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness...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 he spoke, and had... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 pages
...he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...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 he spoke, and had... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 450 pages
...gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness,...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 he spoke." Those... | |
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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... 
