 | 1872 - 556 pages
...hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far if extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces...meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitudo;' because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for... | |
 | Arthur Matthison - 1872 - 240 pages
...the field. LET no man wax pale, on account of opposition., Opposition is what he wants and must have. FOR a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. THERE is great force hidden in a sweet command. GENIUS is the wand of an enchanter. Talent the strength... | |
 | Edward Denison - 1872 - 342 pages
...character of my host and hostess afford. There is only one real bore, and that is feigned amusement. "For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love." . . . I am really very grateful for the kindness and sympathy you have shown me ; any difference which... | |
 | John Percy Gordon - 1872 - 392 pages
...noyau ad libitum. CHAPTER XII. "But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendethj for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love" BACON. BIOGRAPHIES are only written of the Great and the Good — not necessarily, indeed, the Good... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1873 - 494 pages
...TILLOTSON . 91. Empty Talk. " I hear the noise of the mill-stone, but I see no meal." 92. Kindliness. " A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." — BACON. 93. Esse quam videri. " Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...heathen, as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian,1 and Apollonius of Tyana ; 2 and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits...pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.3 The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, magiia tivitas, magna solitudo; 4 because in a great... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 466 pages
...either a wild beast or a god;" and after bringing together illustrations of his assertion he adds : "But little do men perceive what solitude is, and...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. . . . But we may go farther, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...higher conversation;' such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathens—-as Epimenides, the Candian; Numa, the Roman; Empedocles,...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magiia civitas, magna solitude,"—because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1874 - 676 pages
...more certainly is it to be found flitting in them. — " The Biblical Treasury." Verse 7. — "Alone." But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth it a little : " magna civitas, magno solitude ; " because in a great town friends are scattered, so... | |
 | S. L. Edwards - 1953 - 426 pages
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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. 
