| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. 713 Essays 'Of Friendship' yone yo 714 Essays 'Of Friendship' It redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves. 715 Essays 'Of Gardens'... | |
| James Hoopes - 1998 - 220 pages
...intellectual tradition built on the JamesDewey nominalist variant of pragmatism. FOLLETT'S LOCAL DEMOCRACY Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company . . . where there is no love. — Francis Bacon, Essays Ihe final major figure in this study had a... | |
| Anton C. Zijderveld - 1998 - 232 pages
...life in his short essay on friendship: But little doe Men perceive, what Solitude is, and how farre it extendeth. For a Crowd is not Company; And Faces are but a Gallery of Pictures; And Talke but a Tinckling Cymball, where there is no Love. The Latin Adage meeteth it a little; Magna Civitas,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pages
...within the category of 'society': it is not just the presence of other people that makes for fellowship: But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. (p. 59) That memorable distinction between mere company and the necessary precondition for friendship... | |
| Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pages
...heads (iv. 473-92), 'long ago prepared and collected'. Men perceive, what Solitude is, and how farre it extendeth. For a Crowd is not Company; And Faces are but a Gallery of Pictures; And Talke but a Tinckling Cymball, where there is no Love' (XXVII. 16-20), in which the final phrases expropriate... | |
| S. W. Fallon - 2000 - 690 pages
...Bath; sohbat; ham-iâhï; rifaqat. Bad company Bun sohhat. He is good company. Woh achchhä säth hal. A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures where there is no love. Bacon. Bhlrse kuchh tabliä nahin banti, aur bina prit admíyon Tee muh/i mitti... | |
| Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...Nurna0 the Roman, Empedocles0 the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana;0 and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church....extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery0 of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,0 where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth... | |
| Laurie Shannon - 2002 - 255 pages
...more systematic question of anonymous public forms. Specifying what true solitude is, Bacon writes, "the Latin Adage meeteth with it a little; Magna Civitas, Magna Solitudo; Because in a great Towne, Frends are scattered." 4 Here Bacon disavows any direct analogy between friendship and larger... | |
| Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...Francis Bacon Humanity "Cannot the heart in the midst of crowds feel frightfully alone?" Charles Lamb "A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures." — Sir Francis Bacon "I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself."... | |
| Lorraine Smith Pangle - 2002 - 255 pages
...faithfulness after death. But Bacon indicates a still deeper respect in which friendship is beneficial: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal," he says, "where there is no love."33 Friendship is beneficial because no one who is truly human wishes... | |
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