 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.  Solitude - Page 24de Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1805Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...his forehead, and bent the other down to his chin." FRIENDSHIP. (Lord Bacon's Essays. Friendship.) But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...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. The Latin adage... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...following passages are the most notable, or those that best admit of bemg separated from the context :— Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...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 It is a strange... | |
 | 1878 - 300 pages
...made a song in haying-time. He was no poet while a farmer, and no farmer while a poet. — Hawthorne. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extends. FACTS, HINTS, GEMS, AND POETRY. For a crowd is no company; men's faces are but like pictures... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...heathens — as F.pimenides, he Candían ; Numa, the Roman ; Kmpedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius, her to your despairing arms : Indeed you thank'd me...Rose in her soul : for from that hour she lov'd me, T soliude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not •omiHiny, and faces are but a gallery of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...the Sicilian ; and Apollonius, of Tyana ; and truly, and really, in divers of the ancient hermit« again, Most naked plants renew both fruit and flower J The sorr noli.ude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...heathens ; as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedorles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...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. The Latin adage... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...heathens — as Kpimenides, In' Candían ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius, of Tyana ; and truly, and really, in divers of the...But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how for it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, aud то 164».... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and désire to sequester a man's self for a higher' conversation But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it exlendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces i are but a gallery of pictures , and talk but a tinkling... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...heathen ; as Epimenides, the Candían ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...of the heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extended). For a crowd is not company, and faces are but n gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling... | |
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