 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
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...as Epimenides, the Candian ; Ninna, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius, of Tyaua; and truly, and really, in divers of the ancient hermits...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. The Latin adage... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1856 - 324 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...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. LORD BACON.... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...falsely and feignedly in some of the heathens, as Epimenides the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyans, and truly and 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 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...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. LOBD BACON.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...happiness.' ' A desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation such as is found really and truly in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of .the Church.' Bacon here seems to agree in that commendation of a monastic life which is sometimes heard even from... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...of the heathen; as Epimenides the Candían, Numa the Roman, Empedocles 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... | |
 | 1862 - 812 pages
...Epimenides, the Candían ; Nucía, the Roman; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius of Tyana : — and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy...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 Jove. The Latin adage... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1863 - 546 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...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... | |
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