 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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 Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, " magna solitudo... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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 Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, " magna solitudo... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...o.. These indeed are all that a wise man would desire in assemble; « for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling супаbal, where Uicrc is no love.» Note 4, page 21, col. i. From етегу polot • ray of genial... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...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 tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Note 4, page 21, col. 1. From every point a ray of geniw flows ! By this means,... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1831 - 492 pages
...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 of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...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 Latin adage meeteth with it a little; " magna civitas, magna solitude;"... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 320 pages
...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 of pictures, and 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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 330 pages
...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 of pictures, and 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... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1835 - 206 pages
...? — * » * • Jam bene si coenem noster amicus erit!— MARTIAL. 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.— BACON'S Essays, 27th. Et3 But should'st thou waver, when the awful hour... | |
 | William Henry De Merle - 1837 - 966 pages
...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 of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. — BACON. WITHOUT any exception, Saltenham is the most amusing place in the... | |
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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. 
