 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.  English Prose (1137-1890) - Page 82edited by - 1909 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 pages
...Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Eoman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and tiuly aud really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers...and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk luit a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; ' mngim civitus,... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1882 - 496 pages
...certainly is it to be found flitting in them. — '.'.The Biblical Treasury.'' Verse 7. — '.'.Alone.'' But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth it a little : " magna civitas, magno solitvdе ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...Society is as ancient as the world. </. VOLTAIKE — A Philosophical Dictionary. . Policy. SOLITUDE. Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. Л. BACON— Essays. Of Friendship. Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1883 - 512 pages
...certainly is it to be found flitting in them. — "The Biblical Treasury.'"' Verse 7. — "Alone." But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tiniding cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth it a little : " miitjna cinitan, magiio... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...aversion. feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides, the Candian; Numa, the Roman; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly...Latin adage meeteth with it a little : "Magna civitas, magna solitudo; " * because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship,... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pages
...LIVING THOUGHTS OF GREAT THINKERS. Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep. (Long/Mow. SOLITUDE. Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. (Baton, He enter'd in his house — his home no more, For without hearts there is no home ; — and... | |
 | Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1883 - 698 pages
...state is a great solitude.) But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it ertendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...Latin adage meeteth with it a little : magna civitas, magna solitudo. (Ess. Of Friendship.) The poor deer .... left and abandoned of his velvet friends ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...for himself, is no part of the state, so that he is either a wild beast or a divinity." Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius, of Tyana ; and truly...adage meeteth with it a little : " Magna civitas, magna solitudo : " J because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 474 pages
...which Candia is the modern name), is said by Pliny to have fallen into a sleep which lasted Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius, of Tyana ; and truly...adage meeteth with it a little : " Magna civitas, magna solitudo : " 1 because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 722 pages
...Apollonius, of Tyana ; and truly, and really, in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the Churek But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitude," — because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship,... | |
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