 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
 | 1854 - 466 sider
...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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 sider
...holy 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 : ' Magua civitas, magna solitudo,'5 — because in a great... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1856 - 324 sider
...indifferent comfort. CHAPTER XX. 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. LORD BACON. MES. MOWBRAY was in a flutter of eager expectation until the day arrived for their journey... | |
 | 1857 - 584 sider
...Essay on Friendship : — " 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," — because in a great... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1857 - 176 sider
...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." that perceived in them by most, or that which lay nearest to them at their first generation, is one... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 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 Solitudof becaufe in a great Town Friends... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1857 - 332 sider
...indifferent comfort. CHAPTER XX. 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. LOBD BACON. MBS. MOWBBAT was in a flutter of eager expectation until the day arrived for their journey... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 sider
...holy 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 : ' Magua civitas, magna solitudo/5 — because in a great... | |
 | 1857 - 654 sider
...Essay on Friendship : — " 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 buta tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " Magna civitas,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 466 sider
...a genuine utterance of fellow-feeling outweighs the whole of it ? Mark the words of Bacon :—" For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." If this be true, then it is only after acquaintance has grown into intimacy, and intimacy has ripened... | |
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