 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...Apollonins 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 solitudoj" because in a great town... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1854 - 172 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." but (as was indeed to be expected) still more often those of a later time, even those which the world... | |
 | 1854 - 466 pages
...great, nothing precious, nothing high, nothing worthy of ardent desire, but that which is :,lasting. L CROWD is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. POETRY AND ANALOGY. BY RD, IN NC REP., VOL. I.... | |
 | 1854 - 394 pages
...did the the waving corn. He obeyeth the command " Cor ne edito ;" and agreeing with the sage, that " faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling symbol, where there is no love," strives to make the world better by making it merrier. This charming... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...Apollonius, of Tyaua; 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 : ' Magua civitas, magna solitudo,'5 — because in a great... | |
 | 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
...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 a gallery of pictures, and talk hut a tinkling cymhal where there is no lone. — Bacon's Essays.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 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 Solitudof becaufe in a great Town Friends... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 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...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magua civitas, magna solitudo/5 — because in a great... | |
 | 1857 - 632 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...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... | |
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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. 
