 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1856 - 324 pages
...excuse for putting me off.' But that was indifferent comfort. CHAPTER XX. Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth : for a crowd...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.... | |
 | 1857 - 584 pages
...this with one of the first sentences in the Essay on Friendship : — " 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1896 - 876 pages
...and why should the language lose a possible rhyme to 'icicle'? Bacon, ' Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Babe - Drama - 1981 - 60 pages
...—Crowd sounds, applause No. 5004-Sirens No. 5117-Birds For Mimi, Merve, Mary Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd...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,... | |
 | 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...solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered; so that there is not the fellowship for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods." Every afternoon... | |
 | Michael Pakaluk - Philosophy - 1991 - 292 pages
...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 neighborhoods. But we may... | |
 | Ariel Books - Family & Relationships - 1992 - 100 pages
...his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd...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. 
