 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.  Illustrations of universal progress - Page 107by Herbert Spencer - 1875 - 451 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...church. 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,...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; " magna civitas, " magna solitudo ;" because in a great... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 260 pages
...PH^EDRDS, 1. iii. 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 of pictures,...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." NoTEd. P. 72, 1. 16. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By this means, when all nature wears... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 276 pages
...PH.SDRUS, 1. iii. Qi These indeed are all that a wise man would desire to assemble; " for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures,...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." NoxEd. P. 72, 1. 16. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By this means, when all nature wears... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...Church. 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,...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, "A great city is a great solitude ;" because in a great town... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...Church. 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,...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, "A great city is a great solitude ;" because in a great town... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...church. 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,...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, magua solitudo ;" because in a great town... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...the Church. 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 ;...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...Church. > 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 u" love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; ' Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...the church. 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,...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: ';magna civitas, magna solitudo;" because in a great town... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...church. 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,...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, magna solitndo ;" because in a great town... | |
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