English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay
The Harvard Classics
1909– 14
On Bacon (英译汉原文) Ben Jonson Dominus Verulamius 1 ONE, though he be excellent and the chief, is not to be imitated alone; for never no imitator ever grew 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 language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious
2 No man ever spake more neatly, more presly, 3 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 he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion
4 No man had their affe