 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 páginas
...fathers of the church. 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...adage meeteth with it a little; " magna civitas, magna solitude;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1835 - 206 páginas
...putas fidas pectus amicitiae ? — * » * • Jam bene si coenem noster amicus erit!— MARTIAL. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...but a tinkling: cymbal, where there is no love.— BACON'S Essays, 27th. Et3 But should'st thou waver, when the awful hour Of pleasure tempteth with a... | |
 | 1836 - 514 páginas
...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
...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
...fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a oked * way for a present cure, hut overthroweth...patient. But a friend that is wholly acquainted with solitude ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - 274 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
