 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...really in clivers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd...solitudo;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods: but we may... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Memory - 1820 - 160 pages
...with friends." PHA.EDRCS, 1. iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man would desire to assemble ; " for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, ami talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." BACON'S Essays, xxvii. NOTE 4. Page 73. From... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...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 ; for a crowd...meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, magna solitndo ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...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; for a crowd...solitudo;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods : but we may... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...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; for a crowd...meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, magna solitude;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1822 - 340 pages
...with friends." PH^DRUS, 1. iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man would 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. 124, 1. 16. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By this means, when all nature wears a lowering... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd ij not company and face» are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no Ipve, The latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna ci — ' vital, magna solitudo; because in a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...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. For a crowd...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; Alagna civitas, magna solittido; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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 ; for a crowd...;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods : but we may... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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 ; for a crowd...;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods : but we may... | |
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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. 
