 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.  Essays for College English - Page 381edited by - 1918 - 474 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 pages
...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 of pictures,...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
...context :— 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,...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... | |
 | 1744 - 726 pages
...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it exlendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces i are but a gallery of pictures , and talk but a tinkling cymbal wbere thereis no love. The latin adage raeeteth with it a litlle : 18 ' Magna civitas, magna solitude... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...perceive what solitude is, and how far it extended). For a crowd is not company, and faces are but n 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 solitude ;" because in a great town... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 328 pages
...friends."—PH^EDRUS, iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man cau desire to assemble ; " for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures,...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Page 68, line 4. From O'er?/ point a ray of genius fluv:s ! , By these means, when all nature wears... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...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,...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitude,' — [' Great city, great... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; fora crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures,...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; "magna civitas, magna solitudo;" because in a great town... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...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 loce. — Bacon's Essays. To ait on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's... | |
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