 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 Modern Language Review - Page 4091912Full view - About this book
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1805 - 394 pages
...Appollanius, of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what SOLITUDE is, and how...extendeth : for a crowd is not company ; and faces ale but gallery pictures ; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...terms ; whereas, a. friend may speak as the case requires, and not as itsortethwith the person. IBID. BUT little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, Magna ctvitat, magna solitude ; because, in a great town,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...Apollonius, of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is uo love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; " magna civitas, magna solitudo;" because in a great... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1816 - 276 pages
...wilh friends." PH.SDRUS, 1. iii. Qi These indeed are all that a wise man would 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." NoxEd. P. 72, 1. 16. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By this means, when all nature wears... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1816 - 260 pages
...with friends." PH^EDRDS, 1. iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man would 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." NoTEd. P. 72, 1. 16. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By this means, when all nature wears... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits, and holy fathers of the Church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, "A great city is a great solitude ;" because in a great town... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits, and holy fathers of the Church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, "A great city is a great solitude ;" because in a great town... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, magua solitudo ;" because in a great town... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits, and holy fathers of the Church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...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... | |
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