 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pàgines
...falsely and feignedly in some 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
...Heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, 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 Solitudof becaufe in a great Town Friends... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1857 - 332 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. LOBD BACON. MBS. MOWBBAT was in a flutter of eager expectation until the day arrived for their journey... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1864 - 762 pàgines
...he can unburden his soul in sorrow. In other words he expresses the same sentiment as Bacon, tint " a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk is but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." ' —Vol. ip 53. We cannot agree witli Mr. Forsyth... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 876 pàgines
...the vowel in Greek is short, and why should the language lose a possible rhyme to 'icicle'? Bacon, ' Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far...company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.' Which meant that my liver was beginning to show its distaste for the seaside ; luckily I soon met Colonel... | |
 | Thomas Babe - 1981 - 60 pàgines
...4122-Dogs barking No. 5000 —Crowd sounds, applause No. 5004-Sirens No. 5117-Birds For Mimi, Merve, Mary Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk is a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna civitas,... | |
 | 1925 - 790 pàgines
...of one who had long meditated on the inward secrets of this all-important relationship, friendship : "A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love". So wrote this man who mingled so assiduously in the crowded places where self-seekers foregathered... | |
 | Wallace Stevens, José Rodríguez Feo - 1986 - 230 pàgines
...do. 4. The essay by Bacon to which Jose refers is "On Friendship." He was remembering this passage: "For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends... | |
 | Michael Pakaluk - 1991 - 292 pàgines
...heathen; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedodes 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 solitudo; because in a great town, friends... | |
 | Ariel Books - 1992 - 100 pàgines
...learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. — Francis Bacon The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow... | |
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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. 
