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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. "
Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the ... - Page 115
by Ancient learning - 1812
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The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 32-33

Baptists - 1878 - 300 pages
...made a song in haying-time. He was no poet while a farmer, and no farmer while a poet. — Hawthorne. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extends. FACTS, HINTS, GEMS, AND POETRY. For a crowd is no company; men's faces are but like pictures...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...divers of the ancient hermit« and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what noli.ude may find release of pain. The driest soil suck in...some moistening shower: Time goes by turns, and chan то 1№) talk but л tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meetcth with it a little...
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The Christian Pioneer, Volume 1; Volume 9

Baptists - 1744 - 726 pages
...replied, " I wish I could fill it with friends." Tiiese, indeed, are all that a wise man need assemble ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a sound where there is no love. THE FIBES1DE. "I CANNOT PBAY!" — A number of people were one night...
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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Advertiser, Volumes 1-2

William Maxwell - Virginia - 1848 - 460 pages
...attained this glory, or appear engaged in the successful pursuit of it." — Milton. TRUE SOCIETY. " Crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures where there is no love." — Locke. APRIL FOOL. Yes, you have made a fool of me, This first of April,...
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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 1-2

Virginia - 1848 - 460 pages
...attained this glory, or appear engaged in the successful pursuit of it." — Milton. TRUE SOCIETY. " Crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures where there is no love." — Locke. APRIL FOOL. Yes, you have made a fool of me, This first of April,...
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A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; " magna civitas, magna solitude ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is nrft that...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how for s thyself : With thec * Whose image thou art ; him thou shalt enjoy, Inseparably aud то 164». talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage ineetcth with it...
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Études littéraires ou cours complet de littérature anglaise

Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and désire to sequester a man's self for a higher' conversation But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it exlendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces i are but a gallery of pictures , and talk but a tinkling...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of. the church. civitas, magna solitude;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and 1C talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love....The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, nmgiia solitude' — [' Great city, great solitude'] ; because in a great town friends arc...
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