 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; fora crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures,...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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 328 pages
...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 of pictures,...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 pages
...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 of pictures,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 pages
...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 - 580 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...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 of pictures,...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love." — Bacon. Solvo, / loose ; as, solvent, solution, abiolution, resolute. " And thou too, whosoe'er... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...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,...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... | |
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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. 
