 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 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...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magua civitas, magna solitudo/5 — because in a great town friends arc scattered, so that there... | |
 | 1857 - 632 pages
...the one the other." Contrast this with one of the first sentences in the Essay on Friendship : — " Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " Magna civitas, magna solitudo," — because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - English fiction - 1857 - 332 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. LOBD BACON. MBS. MOWBBAT was in a flutter of eager expectation until the day arrived for their journey... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1896 - 876 pages
...the vowel in Greek is short, and why should the language lose a possible rhyme to 'icicle'? Bacon, ' Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far...company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.' Which meant that my liver was beginning to show its distaste for the seaside ; luckily I soon met Colonel... | |
 | Thomas Babe - Drama - 1981 - 60 pages
...4122-Dogs barking No. 5000 —Crowd sounds, applause No. 5004-Sirens No. 5117-Birds For Mimi, Merve, Mary Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk is a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna civitas,... | |
 | 1925 - 790 pages
...of one who had long meditated on the inward secrets of this all-important relationship, friendship : "A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love". So wrote this man who mingled so assiduously in the crowded places where self-seekers foregathered... | |
 | Wallace Stevens, José Rodríguez Feo - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 230 pages
...do. 4. The essay by Bacon to which Jose refers is "On Friendship." He was remembering this passage: "For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered; so that there is not the fellowship... | |
 | Michael Pakaluk - Philosophy - 1991 - 292 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...love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town, friends are scattered; so that there is not that... | |
 | Ariel Books - Family & Relationships - 1992 - 100 pages
...learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. — Francis Bacon The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 294 pages
...instigation he wrote further Of Friendship. "No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend. . . . For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." He wrote Of Vain Glory, Of Anger, Of Building. He wrote Of Masques and Triumphs. "Let the songs be... | |
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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. 
