 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 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 ; becaufe in a great Town,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 pages
...with 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 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 solitude; because in a great town friends... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
