 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 - Pàgina 891821Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1862 - 812 pàgines
...Epimenides, the Candían ; Nucía, the Roman; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius of Tyana : — and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy...and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no Jove. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little — " Magna civitas, magna solitudo'," because in a... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pàgines
...an excellent production, is to undervalue it, will never have one of his own to show. Aitin. CBOWDS. A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, ami talk but a tinkling cymbal, whore there is no love. Досол, CBOWD 8— Gaiety and. Folly of.... | |
 | 1863 - 448 pàgines
...Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius of Tyana : — and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy...tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteih with it a little — " Magna civitas, magna solitude," because in a great town friends are... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 pàgines
...instigation he wrote further Of Friendship. "No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend. . . . For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." He wrote Of Vain Glory, Of Anger, Of Building. He wrote Of Masques and Triumphs. "Let the songs be... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...a great beautifier. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, (1832-1888) US author. Little Women, pt. 2, ch. 1 (1869). 2 For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman, fssays, "Of Friendship" (1597-1... | |
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