 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.  The British Prose Writers - Стр. 891821Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1857 - Страниц: 332
...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. LOBD BACON. MBS. MOWBBAT was in a flutter of eager expectation until the day arrived for their journey... | |
 | 1857 - Страниц: 654
...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...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,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1857 - Страниц: 176
...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." that perceived in them by most, or that which lay nearest to them at their first generation, is one... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - Страниц: 578
...happiness.' ' A desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation such as is found really and truly in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of .the Church.' Bacon here seems to agree in that commendation of a monastic life which is sometimes heard even from... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - Страниц: 594
...heathens — as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius, of Tyana ; and truly, and really, in divers of the...but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymtal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, mogna solitudo,'... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1858 - Страниц: 460
...how 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... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1858 - Страниц: 466
...how 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... | |
 | Mary Anne Galton Schimmelpenninck - 1858 - Страниц: 298
.... CHAP. IX. 1837—1846. " Affliction has a taste as sweet As any cordial comfort." SHAKESPEARE. " For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is not love." BACON. THE last day of 1837 was a Sunday. Mrs. SchimmelPenninck had just returned from the... | |
 | Simon Patrick - 1858 - Страниц: 784
...no love ; for still he is alone, if that be not there. A crowd is not company (as a wise man says) ; and faces are but a gallery of pictures ; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. Nay, so natural is this to us (and withal so sweet), that I believe there is no man in the world who,... | |
 | Mary Anne Galton Schimmelpenninck - 1858 - Страниц: 576
...taste aa sweet As any cordial comfort." SHAKESPEARE. " For a rruwi 1 is not company, and faces are bat a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is not love." — BACON. THE last day of 1837 was a Sunday. Mrs. SchimmelPenninck had just returned from... | |
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