 | 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 of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. BACON. Opinions are the organic structure; feelings are the vital principle.... | |
 | 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 of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Some such feelings I expressed, and much my words pained my kind old friend,... | |
 | 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 of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." (4) By these means, when all nature wears a lowering countenance, I withdraw... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1864 - 762 pages
...he can unburden his soul in sorrow. In other words he expresses the same sentiment as Bacon, tint " a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk is but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." ' —Vol. ip 53. We cannot agree witli Mr. Forsyth... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 876 pages
...rhyme to 'icicle'? Bacon, ' 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.' Which meant that my liver was beginning to show its distaste for the seaside ; luckily I soon met Colonel... | |
 | 1925 - 790 pages
...of one who had long meditated on the inward secrets of this all-important relationship, friendship : "A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love". So wrote this man who mingled so assiduously in the crowded places where self-seekers... | |
 | Thomas Babe - 1981 - 60 pages
...5117-Birds For Mimi, Merve, Mary 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 is a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna civitas,... | |
 | Wallace Stevens, José Rodríguez Feo - 1986 - 230 pages
...4. The essay by Bacon to which Jose refers is "On Friendship." He was remembering this passage: "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; because... | |
 | Michael Pakaluk - 1991 - 292 pages
...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 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; because... | |
 | Ariel Books - 1992 - 100 pages
...them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes 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. — Francis Bacon The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.... | |
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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. 
