 | English fiction - 1873 - 728 pages
...speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.' And how understandingly Bacon wrote here ! ' A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 458 pages
...meere, and miserable Solitude, to want true Frends; without which the World is but a Wildernesse : And even in this sense also of Solitude, whosoever...the Frame of his Nature and Affections, is unfit for Frendship, he taketh it of the Beast, and not from Humanity. A principall Fruit of Frendship, is the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...part, which is in less neighbourhoods ; but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere" and miserable solitude to want true friends,...the world is but a wilderness ; and, even in this scene also of solitude, whosoever, in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 694 pages
...which is in less neighbourhoods ; but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere6 and miserable solitude to .want, true friends, without...the world is but a wilderness ; and, even in this scene also of solitude, whosoever, in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 472 pages
...meere, and miserable Solitude, to want true Frends; without which the World, is but a Wildernesse : And even in this sense also of Solitude, whosoever in the Frame of his Nature and Affecflions, is unfit for Frendship, he taketh it of the Beast, and not from Humanity. A principall... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...part, which is in less neighbourhoods ; but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends,...the world is but a wilderness ; and, even in this scene also of solitude, whosoever, in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 pages
...reflection. 2. Of the fruits and the manifold uses of Friendship, Bacon specifies the following: — i. The ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds occasion: true friends being participes curarum, who double each other's joys, and halve each other's... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 466 pages
...tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. . . . But we may go farther, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness." Who, on reading this, will not call to mind those beautiful lines of Byron, " To sit on rocks, to muse... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1874 - 676 pages
...part, which is in less neighbourhoods ; but we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends,...he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. — Francis Bacon. Verse 7. — " Alone." See the reason why people in trouble love solitariness. They... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...which is in less neighbourhoods ; but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere1 5 and miserable solitude to want true friends, without...he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. 16 A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart,... | |
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Magna rivitas, magna solitudo ; because in a great town friends are scattered; so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude,... 
