 | 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... | |
 | 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
...the Candían, N11 га a the Roman, **) Empedocles the Sicilian,***) and Apol — loniui of Tyana;f) and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits,...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
...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; 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
...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...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, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...heathen ; as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...heathen ; as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, 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... | |
 | Outlines - 1825 - 288 pages
...numerous acquaintance ; Bacon's definition of its emptiness was always assimilated with my judgment: " A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Such an aphorism will limit our association, even with the most eminent and amiable among the followers... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...friends." — PH.EDRUS, 1. Ш, 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." Note 4, page 21, col. 1. From every point a ray of geniw flows ! By this means, when all nature wears... | |
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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. 
