 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...which make any deviations from them more striking, as in this litrle sequence from 'Of Friendship': For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love, (below, p. 391) These and other literary resources, adapted so often and so effectively to context... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...Francis Bacon Humanity "Cannot the heart in the midst of crowds feel frightfully alone?" Charles Lamb "A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures." — Sir Francis Bacon "I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself."... | |
 | B. G. Lovejoy - 2003 - 296 pages
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 | Lorraine Smith Pangle - 2002 - 267 pages
...faithfulness after death. But Bacon indicates a still deeper respect in which friendship is beneficial: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal," he says, "where there is no love."33 Friendship is beneficial because no one who is truly human wishes... | |
 | Bob Kelly - 2003 - 404 pages
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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. 
