 | Outlines - 1825 - 288 pàgines
...numerous acquaintance ; Bacon's definition of its emptiness was always assimilated with my judgment: " A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Such an aphorism will limit our association, even with the most eminent and amiable among the followers... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pàgines
...friends.« — PHXDRUS, 1. iii, 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 pàgines
...friends." — PH.EDRUS, 1. Ш, 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...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, when all nature wears... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pàgines
...friends," — Рнлписз, L ni, 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 а tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Note 4, page 21, col. 1. From every point a ray of genius... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1831 - 492 pàgines
...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 - 1833 - 228 pàgines
...as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empadodes, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; " magna civitas, magna solitude;" because in a great town... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pàgines
...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 - 1834 - 330 pàgines
...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 - 1834 - 320 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
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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. 
