 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 British Prose Writers - Page 891821Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...the Sicilian ; and Apollonius, of Tyana ; and truly, and really, in divers of the ancient hermit« again, Most naked plants renew both fruit and flower J The sorr noli.ude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of... | |
 | Virginia - 1848 - 460 pages
...attained this glory, or appear engaged in the successful pursuit of it." — Milton. TRUE SOCIETY. " Crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures where there is no love." — Locke. APRIL FOOL. Yes, you have made a fool of me, This first of April,... | |
 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1848 - 460 pages
...attained this glory, or appear engaged in the successful pursuit of it." — Milton. TRUE SOCIETY. " Crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures where there is no love." — Locke. APRIL FOOL. Yes, you have made a fool of me, This first of April,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...heathens — as Kpimenides, In' Candían ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius, of Tyana ; and truly, and really, in divers of the...But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how for it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, aud то 164».... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and désire to sequester a man's self for a higher' conversation But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it exlendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces i are but a gallery of pictures , and talk but a tinkling... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 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...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...heathens — as Epimenides, the Candían ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius, of Tyana ; and truly, and really, in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. Rut little do men perceive what soli:udc is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathens, as Epimenides 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 no loce. — Bacon's Essays. To ait on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
..." One tradition represents him as having been removed from the earth the Sicilian, and Apollonius1 of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; fora crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1851 - 328 pages
...with friends."—PH^EDRUS, iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man cau 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." Page 68, line 4. From O'er?/ point a ray of genius fluv:s ! , By these means, when all nature wears... | |
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