 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.  Bacon's Essays - Page 287by Francis Bacon - 1884 - 641 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...divers of the ancient hermit« and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what noli.ude may find release of pain. The driest soil suck in...some moistening shower: Time goes by turns, and chan то 1№) talk but л tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meetcth with it a little... | |
 | 1744 - 726 pages
...replied, " I wish I could fill it with friends." Tiiese, indeed, are all that a wise man need assemble ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a sound where there is no love. THE FIBES1DE. "I CANNOT PBAY!" — A number of people were one night... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 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...great town friends are scattered, so that there is nrft that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods : but we may go farther, and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how for s thyself : With thec * Whose image thou art ; him thou shalt enjoy, Inseparably aud то 164». talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage ineetcth with it... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and 1C talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love....adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, nmgiia solitude' — [' Great city, great solitude'] ; because in a great town friends arc scattered,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...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...with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitude,' — [' Great city, great solitude;'] because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...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...meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitudo,' — [' Great city, great solitude;'] because in a great town friends are scattered, so that... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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 no loce. — Bacon's Essays. To ait on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 328 pages
...with friends."—PH^EDRUS, iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man cau 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." Page 68, line 4. From O'er?/ point a ray of genius fluv:s ! , By these means, when all nature wears... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...Apollonius1 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 far it extendeth; fora crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal... | |
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