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. Ann Arbor Baptist - Стр. 131888Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Richard Hiley - 1852 - Страниц: 344
...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - Страниц: 580
...men perceive what solitude is, and how far it 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 meeteth with it a little: "magna civitas, magna solitudo ;" because in a great town... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - Страниц: 176
...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 ; magna civitas, magna solitude; because in a great town friends... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1853 - Страниц: 766
...as, sule, solitude, desolation. " Little do men perceive what rolitude 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." — Bacon. Solvo, / loose ; as, solvent, solution, abiolution, resolute. " And thou too, whosoe'er... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1854 - Страниц: 172
...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...but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." but (as was indeed to be expected) still more often those of a later time, even those which the world had... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1854 - Страниц: 894
...holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. of the force of custom, both upon mind and body....custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; " Magna civitas, magna solitudoj" because in a great town... | |
| 1854 - Страниц: 394
...did the the waving corn. He obeyeth the command " Cor ne edito ;" and agreeing with the sage, that " faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling symbol, where there is no love," strives to make the world better by making it merrier. This charming... | |
| 1854 - Страниц: 466
...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.... | |
| Margaret Agnes Paull - 1856 - Страниц: 324
...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... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - Страниц: 562
...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... | |
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