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 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - Страниц: 594
...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 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,'... | |
 | 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, Christiana C. Hankin - 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1864 - Страниц: 762
...he can unburden his soul in sorrow. In other words he expresses the same sentiment as Bacon, tint " a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk is but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." ' —Vol. ip 53. We cannot agree witli Mr. Forsyth... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - Страниц: 876
...possible rhyme to 'icicle'? Bacon, ' 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.' Which meant that my liver was beginning to show its distaste for the seaside ; luckily I soon met Colonel... | |
 | 1925 - Страниц: 790
...of one who had long meditated on the inward secrets of this all-important relationship, friendship : "A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love". So wrote this man who mingled so assiduously in the crowded places where self-seekers foregathered... | |
 | Thomas Babe - 1981 - Страниц: 60
...5117-Birds For Mimi, Merve, Mary 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 is a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna civitas,... | |
 | Wallace Stevens, José Rodríguez Feo - 1986 - Страниц: 230
...do. 4. The essay by Bacon to which Jose refers is "On Friendship." He was remembering this passage: "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 town friends... | |
 | Michael Pakaluk - 1991 - Страниц: 292
...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 solitudo; because in a great town, friends... | |
 | Ariel Books - 1992 - Страниц: 100
...tell them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes 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. — Francis Bacon The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow... | |
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