 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 539 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1820 - 142 pages
...friends." PHA.EDRCS, 1. iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man would desire to assemble ; " for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, ami talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." BACON'S Essays, xxvii. NOTE 4. Page 73. From... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pages
...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 solitndo ;" because in a great town... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1822 - 340 pages
...friends." PH^DRUS, 1. iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man would desire to assemble ; " for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." P. 124, 1. 16. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By this means, when all nature wears a lowering... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd ij not company and face» are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no Ipve, The latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna ci — ' vital, magna solitudo; because in a... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825
...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... | |
 | Outlines - 1825 - 288 pages
...numerous acquaintance ; Bacon's definition of its emptiness was always assimilated with my judgment: " A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Such an aphorism will limit our association, even with the most eminent and amiable among the followers... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825
...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 356 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. 
