 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
 | Warner Taylor - 1923 - 532 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...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... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1923 - 548 pages
...wisdom. Now and again, to be sure, Bacon startles us with an altogether unworldly sentence, such as this: "Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...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." Some of the... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1923 - 524 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...hermits and holy fathers of the Church. But little co men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are... | |
 | Charles Preston Weaver - 1924 - 148 pages
...of solitude presents certain obvious difficulties. Bacon, in his essay entitled Of Friendship, says: "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."- A Greek maxim... | |
 | 1924 - 152 pages
...solitude presents certain obvious difficulties. Bacon,y in his essay entitled Of Friendship, says : "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." A Greek maxim... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pages
...of the heathen; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius it by degrees.) OF STUDIES Studies are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage... | |
 | Joseph Morris, St. Clair Adams - 1925 - 188 pages
...heathen ; as Epimenides 3 the Candian, Numa * the Roman, Empedocles 5 the Sicilian, and Apollonius 6 of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...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... | |
 | Agnes Maude Royden - 1925 - 172 pages
...the world than great cities, if one has no friends. "For little do men perceive what solitude is, nor 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." People may... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 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... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 pages
...of the heathen, as Epimenides the CandLan, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...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... | |
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