 | 1836 - 514 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; " Magna civitas, magna solitude ;" because in a great town... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - 274 páginas
...subject as Cicero, Montaigne, and Browne, evidently had the same feelings. How touchingly does he say! " A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love." We can hardly believe that he is not speaking here of our own times. The real, though uncomfortable... | |
 | 468 páginas
...bitterness, and tears! How often do men question thus, with the poet — Truly has Bacon observed, that " a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Madame de Stael has remarked upon the words no more, that both in sound and sense they are more descriptive... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 60 páginas
...with friends." — PH.EDRUS, iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wisa 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." Page 21, col. 1, line 37. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By these means, when all nature... | |
 | William Henry De Merle - 1839 - 332 páginas
...with that intent, than giving the word of command in the dav of battle. CHAP. XII. THE WATER-DRINKERS. 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... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 páginas
...his forehead, and bent the other down to his chin." FRIENDSHIP. (Lord Bacon's Essays. Friendship.) But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage says, " a great city is a great solitude," because in a great town friends are scattered,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...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...church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and huw far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 298 páginas
...Magna civitas, magna solitudo ;' and certainly incline to that of Bacon, " Crowds are not company ; faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." " It was because I had had too much of this gallery, and tinkling cymbal, without the love, that I... | |
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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. 
