 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.  Literary and Professional Works - Side 803af Francis Bacon - 1861Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 sider
...fathers of the church. 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...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; " magna civitas, magna solitude ;" because in a great town... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 sider
...fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how for it extendeth ; for ec * 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... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 sider
...do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it exlendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces i are but a gallery of pictures , and talk but a tinkling cymbal wbere thereis no love. The latin adage raeeteth with it a litlle : 18 ' Magna civitas, magna solitude... | |
 | John Yonge Akerman - 1850 - 242 sider
...my fellow-men. It has been well remarked that solitude reigns supreme in the greatest cities, " for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love." J. This love of a country life is after all, I believe, inherent, and scarcely to be acquired. S. Perhaps... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 sider
...perceive what solitude is, and how far it extended). For a crowd is not company, and faces are but n gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; " Magna civitas, magna solitude ;" because in a great town... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 sider
...fathers of the church. 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...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitude,' — [' Great city, great... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 sider
...fathers of the church. 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...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitudo,' — [' Great city, great... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 328 sider
...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 sider
...fathers of the church. 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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 sider
...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...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... | |
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