 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 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 far it extended). For a crowd is not company, and faces are but n gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...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,' — [' Great city, great solitude;'] because in a great town friends are... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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...pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no loce. — Bacon's Essays. To ait on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1851 - 328 pages
...with friends."—PH^EDRUS, iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man cau 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." Page 68, line 4. From O'er?/ point a ray of genius fluv:s ! , By these means, when all nature wears... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...Apollonius1 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 far it extendeth; fora crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...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...Love. The Latin Adage meeteth with it a little ; Magna Civitas, magna Solitudo ; becaufe in a great Town, Friends are fcattered ; fo that there is not that... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 pages
...it 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 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...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... | |
 | 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 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...love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; magna civitas, magna solitude; because in a great town friends are scattered ; so that there is not that... | |
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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. 
