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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. "
The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ... - Page 23
1881 - 536 pages
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...found to have been falsely and èignedly in some of the heathens — as Kpimenides, In' Candían ; n order «et, One after other flow into the shore,...many kisses wet, They ebb away in order as before for it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, aud то 164»....
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides, the Candían ; 7 TZ "magna civitas, magna solitude;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not...
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius...little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extended). For a crowd is not company, and faces are but n gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathens — as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius,...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitudo,' — [' Great city, great solitude;'] because in a great town friends...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...heathens — as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and ApoUonius, of Tyana ; and truly, and really, in divers of the...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitude,' — [' Great city, great solitude;'] because in a great town friends...
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...conversation, such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathens, as Epimenides the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana, and truly and...pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no loce. — Bacon's Essays. To ait on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral ; And, Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...feignedly, in fome of the Heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedodes the Scicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really, in...no Love. The Latin Adage meeteth with it a little ; Magna Civitas, magna Solitudo ; becaufe in a great Town, Friends are fcattered ; fo that there is...
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral, and Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 414 pages
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides, he Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius...extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces ire but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen, as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Koman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana ;...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; magna civitas, magna solitude; because in a great town friends are scattered ; so that there is not...
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