 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
 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - 1859 - 590 pages
...SchimmelPenninck. CHAP. IX. 1837—1846. " Affliction has a taste aa sweet Aa any cordial comfort." SHAKESPEARE. " For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is not love." — BACON. THE last day of 1837 was a Sunday. Mrs. SchimmelPenninck had just returned from... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1859 - 226 pages
...friends." These, indeed, are all that a wise man would desire to assemble ; for a crowd is not company, faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. 2. It is related of Pythagoras, an eminent philosopher of antiquity, that before he would admit any... | |
 | 1859 - 802 pages
...men consider what solitude is, and how far it extends. For a crowd is not company, and faces are bui a gallery of pictures, and talk, but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage touches the truth, " Magna civi!n.!tt magna sofitudo; a great city is a great desert ; because in a... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...In reason's world what storms are rife, What passions rage and glare ! (1) " For," says Lord Dacon, "a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures :" and he quotes in confirmation the Latin adage, " Magna civttas, magna solitudo." See " Essay on Friendship."... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1860 - 480 pages
...with friends."— PAtedrus, Hi. 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." (4) By these means, when all nature wears a lowering countenance, I withdraw myself lnto the visionary... | |
 | D R. M'Nab - 1860 - 296 pages
...is not to be gained but by exerting every manly talent in public and in private life. LORD KAIMES. A crowd is not company ; and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. BACON. Opinions are the organic structure; feelings are the vital principle. H. TAYLOR. Thoughts are... | |
 | 1860 - 978 pages
...no association of the past, no thrilling tenderness for the present. Yes, I felt truly then that " a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Some such feelings I expressed, and much my words pained my kind old friend, and very earnest though... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 854 pages
...the excesses of it, vi. 397. the ruin of business, vi. 398, 558. nuptial, friendly, wanton, vi. 398. a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love, vi. 437. without end hath no end, vii. 146. as though you should hereafter hate, vii. 150. love me... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 460 pages
...excesses of it, xii. 110. the ruin of business, xii. Ill, 336. nuptial, friendly, wanton, xii. 111. a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk out a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love, xii. 166. without end hath no end, xiii. 360. as though... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 464 pages
...the excesses of it, xii. 110. the ruin of business, xii. Il1, 336. nuptial, friendly, wanton, xii. a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk out a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love, xii. 166. without end hath no end, xiii. 360. as though... | |
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