 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...sule, solitude, 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...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 - 1854 - 894 pages
...holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For the force of custom, both upon mind and body. Therefore...custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; " Magna civitas, magna solitudoj" because in a great town... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1854 - 172 pages
...in some affecting words of Lord Bacon, who glosses and explains it exactly in this sense ; — " For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." but (as was indeed to be expected) still more often those of a later time, even those which the world... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1854 - 468 pages
...friends." — Ph<Edrus, 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...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." \ (4) By these means, when all nature wears a lowering countenance, I withdraw myself into the visionary... | |
 | 1854 - 394 pages
...did the the waving corn. He obeyeth the command " Cor ne edito ;" and agreeing with the sage, that " faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling symbol, where there is no love," strives to make the world better by making it merrier. This charming... | |
 | 1854 - 466 pages
...great, nothing precious, nothing high, nothing worthy of ardent desire, but that which is :,lasting. L CROWD is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. POETRY AND ANALOGY. BY RD, IN NC REP., VOL. I.... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1856 - 324 pages
...indifferent comfort. CHAPTER XX. 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. LORD BACON. MES. MOWBRAY was in a flutter of eager expectation until the day arrived for their journey... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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 : ' Magua civitas, magna solitudo,'5 — because in a great... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 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 Solitudof becaufe in a great Town Friends... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 880 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. 
