 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pàgines
...divers of the ancient hermits and holy lathers of the church. But little do men perceive what soli:ude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, aud 241 1Ü TO Ili4ï. talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage rnceteth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pàgines
...Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonins of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers ia, for penance, that will sit a whole night in a...custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, solitudoj" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1854 - 172 pàgines
...found in some affecting words of Lord Bacon, who glosses and explains it exactly in this sense ; — " For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." but (as was indeed to be expected) still more often those of a later time, even those which the world... | |
 | 1854 - 394 pàgines
...did the the waving corn. He obeyeth the command " Cor ne edito ;" and agreeing with the sage, that " faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling symbol, where there is no love," strives to make the world better by making it merrier. This charming... | |
 | 1854 - 466 pàgines
...great, nothing precious, nothing high, nothing worthy of ardent desire, but that which is :,lasting. L CROWD is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. POETRY AND ANALOGY. BY RD, IN NC REP., VOL. I.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pàgines
...Ninna, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius, of Tyaua; and truly, and really, in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the Church....no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magua civitas, magna solitudo,'5 — because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1856 - 324 pàgines
...most likely have found some excuse for putting me off.' But that was indifferent comfort. CHAPTER XX. Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. LORD BACON. MES. MOWBRAY was in a flutter of eager expectation until the day arrived for their journey... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pàgines
...of the heathens, as Epimenides the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyans, and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceine what solitude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are hut... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pàgines
...Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient Hermits and holy Fathers of the Church....Adage meeteth with it a little ; Magna Civitas, magna Solitudof becaufe in a great Town Friends are fcattered ; fo that there is not that Fellowfhip, for... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pàgines
...the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollouius, of Tyana ; and truly, and really, in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the Church....no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magua civitas, magna solitudo/5 — because in a great town friends arc scattered, so that there... | |
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But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. 
