 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 sider
...heathens — as Epimenides, the Candían ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius, of Tyana ; and truly, and really, in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. Rut little do men perceive what soli:udc is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 sider
...conversation : such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathens — as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian...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
...heathens — as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius, of Tyana ; and truly, and really, in divers of the...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 sider
...have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathens, as Epimenides the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana, and truly and really in divers of the ancient...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
..." One tradition represents him as having been removed from the earth the Sicilian, and Apollonius1 of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; fora crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 sider
...of the Heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedodes the Scicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really, in divers of the...Talk but a tinkling Cymbal, where there is no Love. The Latin Adage meeteth with it a little ; Magna Civitas, magna Solitudo ; becaufe in a great Town,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 sider
...the heathen ; as Epimenides, he Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces ire but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 sider
...it with friends."— PH^DEUS, iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man can 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." P. 97, 1. 28. From every point a ray of genitu flows! By these means, when all nature wears a lowering... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 sider
...friends." These, indeed, are all that a wise man would desire to assemble ; for a crowd is not company, faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. It is related of Pythagoras, an eminent philosopher of antiquity, that before he would admit any one... | |
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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. 
