 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and huw far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and...meeteth with it a little : " Magna civitas, magna solitude ; " i because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship,... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...other down to his chin." FRIENDSHIP. (Lord Bacon's Essays. Friendship.) But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd...tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage says, " a great city is a great solitude," because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 298 pages
...Magna civitas, magna solitudo ;' and certainly incline to that of Bacon, " Crowds are not company ; faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." " It was because I had had too much of this gallery, and tinkling cymbal, without the love, that I... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 732 pages
...Magna civitas, magna solitudo ,-' and certainly incline to that of Bacon, ' Crowds are not company ; faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.' " It was because I had had too much of this gallery, and tinkling cymbal, without the love, that I... | |
 | The treasury of wit and anecdote - 1842 - 336 pages
...heart, when time has furrowed i 2 the cheek, and sprinkled the sorrows of age upon the honoured head. A CROWD is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, where there is no love. WOMEN. NINON DE L'ENCLOS said she returned thanks to God every night for the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 516 pages
...friends." — PII.CUHUS, 1. ill, 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." Note 4, page 21, col. 1. From every point a ray of geniax flows ! By this means, when all nature wears... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 352 pages
...with friends." — PHJEDRUS, 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 of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, wjiere there is no love." P. 141, 1. 24. From every point a ray of genius flaws! By these means, when... | |
 | State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania - Criminal statistics - 1843 - 550 pages
...associate in crime is to be severely punished, what benefits then can they derive from working together, "for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures." But should they even allow the prisoners under the associate system to correspond or mingle indiscriminately... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...Bacon's death— Thomas Farnuby produced unThere is a peace or unity Grounded upon implicit ignorance. Faces are but a gallery of pictures. And talk but a tinkling cymbal where other poem by Bacon— and accepted by Tnerp js no ]oye Spedding as Bacon's work— an expauI have,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...First Preliminary DKscrtatlnn to ' Encyclopedia Britimnica,' л- •'"'» »evtMUh edition. FROH 1558 k her part was done, And that her reign hail here its last fulfill niceteth with it a little : ' Magna ci vi tau, msgna solitude' — [' Groat city, great solitude']... | |
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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. 
