 | John Relly Beard - Families - 1831 - 492 pages
...though his powerful and well-stored mind could never have allowed him to feel the vacancy of solitude, " a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness."... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...the heathens; as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empadodes, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...adage meeteth with it a little; " magna civitas, magna solitude;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...every man is not a friend. A person may be solitary among thousands ; for, as Lord Bacon observes, — "A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures." This is one reason why many men gladly leave the pomp, selfishness, and disquiet of the world, to associate... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1834 - 330 pages
...it with friends." PHTEDKUS, iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man can 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. 122,1. 4. From every point a ray of genius flows! By these means, when all nature wears a lowering... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Fore-edge painting - 1834 - 320 pages
...it with friends." PHJEDRUS, iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man can 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. 122,1.4. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By these means, when all nature wears a lowering... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 436 pages
...indeed are all that a wise man can desire to assemble; " for a crowd is not company, and faces arc but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." P. 122, 1. 4. From every point a ray of genius Jiows ! By these means, when all nature wears a lowering... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1835 - 206 pages
...Esse putas fidas pectus amicitiae ? — * » * • Jam bene si coenem noster amicus erit!— MARTIAL. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...but a tinkling: cymbal, where there is no love.— BACON'S Essays, 27th. Et3 But should'st thou waver, when the awful hour Of pleasure tempteth with a... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...friends." — Гн F.IIJÍ rs. 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 of pictures, and talk but a tiiikling cymbal, where there is no love," Note 4, page 21, col. 1. From every point a ray оГ genius... | |
 | William Henry De Merle - 1837 - 966 pages
...with that intent, than giving the word of command in the dav of battle. CHAP. XII. THE WATER-DKINKERS. A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. — BACON. WITHOUT any exception, Saltenham is the most amusing place in the world, for those who find... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...of the heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian, Nnma the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius nces, which when they come up to the seat of the estate,...these arts being here placed with the principal and solitude ;" 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. 
