 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...solicitous, solicitude. Solus, alone; as, sule, solitude, desolation. " Little do men perceive what rolitude is and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company,...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love." — Bacon. Solvo, / loose ; as, solvent, solution, abiolution, resolute. " And thou too, whosoe'er... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...divers of the ancient hermits and holy lathers of the church. But little do men perceive what soli:ude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, aud 241 1Ü TO Ili4ï. talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage rnceteth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...Apollonins 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 solitudoj" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1854 - 172 pages
...found 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... | |
 | Arts - 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... | |
 | Philosophy and religion - 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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...Apollonius, of Tyaua; 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...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magua civitas, magna solitudo,'5 — because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1856 - 324 pages
...most likely have found some excuse for putting me off.' But that was indifferent comfort. CHAPTER XX. Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceine what solitude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are hut a gallery of pictures, and talk hut a tinkling cymhal where there is no lone. — Bacon's Essays.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 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 Solitudof becaufe in a great Town Friends are fcattered ; fo 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. 
