 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits, and holy fa*thers of the Church. > But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...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
...Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really in clivers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: ';magna civitas, magna solitudo;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Memory - 1820 - 160 pages
...with friends." PHA.EDRCS, 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, ami talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." BACON'S Essays, xxvii. NOTE 4. Page 73. From... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...Apollonins of 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...The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, magna solitndo ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1822 - 340 pages
...with friends." PH^DRUS, 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...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." P. 124, 1. 16. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By this means, when all nature wears a lowering... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...of Tyana;f) 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 it extendeth. For a crowd ij not company and face» are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...Apollonius of 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...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; Alagna civitas, magna solittido; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...Apollonius of 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...The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: " magna civitas, " magna solitudo;" because in a .great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...Apollonius of 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...The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, " magna solitudo ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...Apollonius of 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...The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, " magna solitudo ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that... | |
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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. 
