 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 pages
...with friends." — PH.EDRUS, 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." Page 68, line 2. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By these means, when all nature wears a lowering... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...following passages are the most notable, or those that best admit of bemg separated from the context :— Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love It is a strange thing to observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...passages are the most notahle, or those that hest admit of heing •••parated from the context:— Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are hut a gallery of pictures, and talk hut a tinkling cymhal, where there is no love. » It is a strange... | |
 | 1878 - 300 pages
...made a song in haying-time. He was no poet while a farmer, and no farmer while a poet. — Hawthorne. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extends. FACTS, HINTS, GEMS, AND POETRY. For a crowd is no company; men's faces are but like pictures... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...heathens — as F.pimenides, he Candían ; Numa, the Roman ; Kmpedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius, of to your despairing arms : Indeed you thank'd me ;...Rose in her soul : for from that hour she lov'd me, T soliude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not •omiHiny, and faces are but a gallery of... | |
 | 1744 - 726 pages
...replied, " I wish I could fill it with friends." Tiiese, indeed, are all that a wise man need assemble ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a sound where there is no love. THE FIBES1DE. "I CANNOT PBAY!" — A number of people were one night... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 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... | |
 | William Maxwell - 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...heathens ; as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedorles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...meeteth with it a little ; " magna civitas, magna solitude ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is nrft 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. 
