 | 1863 - 448 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 meeteih with it a little — " Magna civitas, magna solitude," because in a great town... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1863 - 580 pages
...Friendship : — ' 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," — because in a great... | |
 | Book, H. A. - 1865 - 184 pages
...but artisans with voluble and well-drilled tongues. SOCIETY NOTHING WITHOUT LOVE. 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. • INGRATITUDE. Ingratus est, qui beneficium se accepisse negat quod accepit ; ingratus, qui... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 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 3meeteth with it a little, " Magna civitas, magna solitude ;" because in a great town... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and [2] 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 [3] adage meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, magna solitude ;" because in a great... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 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 solitudo," — because in a great... | |
 | Hetty Bowman - 1869 - 328 pages
...part of every day. I began to understand the truth of what Bacon somewhere says, that ' a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures,...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.' I had never felt so solitary among the Cumberland hills, as now in the 'crowded loneliness ' of Liverpool.... | |
 | Henry Attwell - 1870 - 314 pages
...line preface trop courte en tete d'un livre sans fin. SOCIETY NOTHING WITHOUT LOVE. 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. INGRATITUDE. Ingratus est, qui beneficium se accepisse negat quod accepit; ingratus, qui dissimulat;... | |
 | Henry Attwell - 1870 - 314 pages
...trop courte en tete d'un livre sans fin. Petit-Sena. SOCIETY NOTHING WITHOUT LOVE. 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. INGRATITUDE. Ingratus est, qui beneficium se accepisse negat quod accepit; ingratus, qui dissimulat;... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 354 pages
...of Lord Bacon, who glosses and explains it in the sense of solitude in crowds : " For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures,...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." It is the feeling embodied in Wordsworth's picture of one Who, 'mong those thousands, friend hath none,... | |
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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. 
