 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 260 pages
...with friends." 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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, "A great city is a great solitude ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...of the heathen, as Epimenides the Candian, N lima the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, "A great city is a great solitude ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...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...adage meeteth with it a little ; Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...heathens ; as Epimenides, the Candian ; Nnma, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...adage meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, magua solitudo ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...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...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
...Numa, the Roman; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really in clivers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church....adage meeteth with it a little: ';magna civitas, magna solitudo;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...heathens ; as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonins of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, magna solitndo ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...heathens ; as Epimenides, the Candian; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...with it a little : " magna civitas, magna solitude;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...heathens ; as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Eoapedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, magna solitudo;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for... | |
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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. 
