 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...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...Talk but a tinkling Cymbal where there is no Love. The Latin Adage meeteth with it a little ; Magna Civitas, magna Solitudof becaufe in a great Town Friends... | |
 | 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 632
...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...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... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...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...talk but a tinkling cymbal , where there is no love. LOBD BACON. MBS. MOWBBAT was in a flutter of eager expectation until the day arrived for their journey... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 762
...he can unburden his soul in sorrow. In other words he expresses the same sentiment as Bacon, tint " a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk is but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." ' —Vol. ip 53. We cannot agree witli Mr. Forsyth... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 876
...the vowel in Greek is short, and why should the language lose a possible rhyme to 'icicle'? Bacon, ' Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far...company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.' Which meant that my liver was beginning to show its distaste for the seaside ; luckily I soon met Colonel... | |
 | Thomas Babe - 1981 - عدد الصفحات: 60
...4122-Dogs barking No. 5000 —Crowd sounds, applause No. 5004-Sirens No. 5117-Birds For Mimi, Merve, Mary Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk is a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna civitas,... | |
 | 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 790
...of one who had long meditated on the inward secrets of this all-important relationship, friendship : "A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love". So wrote this man who mingled so assiduously in the crowded places where self-seekers foregathered... | |
 | Wallace Stevens, José Rodríguez Feo - 1986 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...do. 4. The essay by Bacon to which Jose refers is "On Friendship." He was remembering this passage: "For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...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... | |
 | Michael Pakaluk - 1991 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...some of the heathen; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedodes the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really, in divers of the ancient...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... | |
 | Ariel Books - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 100
...learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. — Francis Bacon The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow... | |
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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. 
