 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.  The British Prose Writers - Pągina 891821Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pągines
...the heathen ; as Epimenides, he Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces ire but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 pągines
...it with friends."— PH^DEUS, iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man can desire to assemble ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." P. 97, 1. 28. From every point a ray of genitu flows! By these means, when all nature wears a lowering... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 pągines
...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pągines
...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 pągines
...heathens — as Epimenides, ;he Candķan ; 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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1854 - 172 pągines
...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 - 466 pągines
...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.... | |
 | 1854 - 394 pągines
...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... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1856 - 324 pągines
...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 pągines
...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... | |
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