 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
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 sider
...instigation he wrote further Of Friendship. "No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend. . . . For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." He wrote Of Vain Glory, Of Anger, Of Building. He wrote Of Masques and Triumphs. "Let the songs be... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sider
...great beautifier. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, (1832-1888) US author. Little Women, pt. 2, ch. 1 (1869). 2 For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman, fssays, "Of Friendship" (1597-1... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sider
...he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. 713 Essays 'Of Friendship' yone yo 714 Essays 'Of Friendship' It redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves. 715 Essays 'Of Gardens'... | |
 | Anton C. Zijderveld - 1998 - 232 sider
...essay on friendship: But little doe Men perceive, what Solitude is, and how farre it extendeth. For a Crowd is not Company; And Faces are but a Gallery of Pictures; And Talke but a Tinckling Cymball, where there is no Love. The Latin Adage meeteth it a little; Magna Civitas,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 sider
...Fathers of the Church. But little doe Men perceive, what Solitude is, and how farre it extendeth. For a Crowd is not Company; And Faces are but a Gallery of Pictures; And Talke but a Tinckling Cymball, where there is no Love. The Latine Adage meeteth with it a little; Magna... | |
 | S. W. Fallon - 2000 - 690 sider
...Bath; sohbat; ham-iâhï; rifaqat. Bad company Bun sohhat. He is good company. Woh achchhä säth hal. A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures where there is no love. Bacon. Bhlrse kuchh tabliä nahin banti, aur bina prit admíyon Tee muh/i mitti... | |
 | Margaret Beetham, Kay Boardman - 2001 - 244 sider
...thee wish it done." (3) "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." (4) "I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning, Alas! the gratitude of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 sider
...which make any deviations from them more striking, as in this litrle sequence from 'Of Friendship': For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love, (below, p. 391) These and other literary resources, adapted so often and so effectively to context... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 sider
...Francis Bacon Humanity "Cannot the heart in the midst of crowds feel frightfully alone?" Charles Lamb "A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures." — Sir Francis Bacon "I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself."... | |
 | Lorraine Smith Pangle - 2002 - 267 sider
...faithfulness after death. But Bacon indicates a still deeper respect in which friendship is beneficial: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal," he says, "where there is no love."33 Friendship is beneficial because no one who is truly human wishes... | |
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