 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1857 - 332 pages
...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... | |
 | 1857 - 654 pages
...the one the other." Contrast this with one of the first sentences in the Essay on Friendship : — " Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk buta tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " Magna civitas,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1857 - 176 pages
...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." that perceived in them by most, or that which lay nearest to them at their first generation, is one... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 880 pages
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 | Francis Bacon - 1966 - 288 pages
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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. 
