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. Dorothy: A Tale - Стр. 222авторы: Margaret Agnes Paull - 1856 - Страниц: 315Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| William Henry De Merle - 1837 - Страниц: 966
...with that intent, than giving the word of command in the dav of battle. CHAP. XII. THE WATER-DKINKERS. A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. — BACON. WITHOUT any exception, Saltenham is the most amusing place in the world, for those who find... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - Страниц: 898
...Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits, and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...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... | |
| Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - Страниц: 274
...subject as Cicero, Montaigne, and Browne, evidently had the same feelings. How touchingly does he say! " A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love." We can hardly believe that he is not speaking here of our own times. The real, though uncomfortable... | |
| Страниц: 468
...bitterness, and tears! How often do men question thus, with the poet — Truly has Bacon observed, that " a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Madame de Stael has remarked upon the words no more, that both in sound and sense they are more descriptive... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1839 - Страниц: 60
...with friends." — PH.EDRUS, iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wisa man can desire to assemble ; " for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Page 21, col. 1, line 37. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By these means, when all nature... | |
| William Henry De Merle - 1839 - Страниц: 332
...with that intent, than giving the word of command in the dav of battle. CHAP. XII. THE WATER-DRINKERS. A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. — BACON. WITHOUT any exception, Saltenham is the most amusing place in the world, for those who find... | |
| Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - Страниц: 436
...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 far...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage says, " a great city is a great solitude," because in a great town friends are scattered,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - Страниц: 244
...ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and huw far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " Magna civitas, magna solitude ; " i because in a great... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - Страниц: 732
...Magna civitas, magna solitudo ,-' and certainly incline to that of Bacon, ' Crowds are not company ; faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.' " It was because I had had too much of this gallery, and tinkling cymbal, without the love, that I... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - Страниц: 298
...Magna civitas, magna solitudo ;' and certainly incline to that of Bacon, " Crowds are not company ; faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." " It was because I had had too much of this gallery, and tinkling cymbal, without the love, that I... | |
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