 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 pàgines
...friends." These, indeed, are all that a wise man would desire to assemble ; for a crowd is not company, faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. It is related of Pythagoras, an eminent philosopher of antiquity, that before he would admit any one... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pàgines
...heathen, as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Koman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; magna civitas, magna solitude; because in a great town friends... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pàgines
...solicitous, solicitude. Solus, alone; as, sule, solitude, desolation. " Little do men perceive what rolitude is and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company,...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love." — Bacon. Solvo, / loose ; as, solvent, solution, abiolution, resolute. " And thou too, whosoe'er... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pàgines
...Epimenides, ;he Candían ; Numa, the Roman ; Kmpedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius, of Tyana ; and truly, and really, in 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pàgines
...heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonins of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits,...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; " Magna civitas, magna solitudoj" because in a great town... | |
 | 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
...as Epimenides, the Candian ; Ninna, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius, of Tyaua; and truly, and really, in divers of the ancient hermits...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magua civitas, magna solitudo,'5 — because in a great... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
