| Simon Patrick - Christian life - 1667 - 558 pages
...if that be not there. A crowd is not company j ( as a Wife man fayes ) and Faces are but aGaltery of Pictures; and Talk but a Tinkling Cymbal, where there is no love. Nay fo natural is this to us(and withall fo fweet) that I believe there is no man in the World who... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...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. TheLatine Adage meeteth with it a little, Magna Civitas, magnafolitiido; becaufeina great Town Friends... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1799 - 390 pages
...what SOLITUDE is, and how far it extendeth ! for a crowd is not company ; and faces are but gallery pictures ; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there...The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " Magna civhas, magna folitudo ; becaufe in a great town friends are fcattered, fo that there is not that fellowT... | |
| 1801 - 446 pages
...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...meeteth with it a little ; " magna civitas, magna solitude ;" because in a great town friendi are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1801 - 222 pages
...wise man would desire to assemble; " for a crowd is not company, and 123 faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." BACON'S Essays, xxvii. NOTE d. P. 107, 1. 11. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By this means,... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1801 - 208 pages
...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 tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." BACON'S Essays, xxvii. NOTE d. P. 107, 1. 11. From every point a ray of genius flows! By this means,... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1802 - 308 pages
...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 tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." BACON'S Essays, xxvii. NoTEd. P. 103, 1. 11. • From every point a ray of genius flows! By this means,... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1805 - 394 pages
...what SOLITUDE is, and how far it extendeth : for a crowd is not company ; and faces ale but gallery pictures ; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meetethwith it a little: " Mag na civitas, magna Jolitudo;" becaufe in a great town friends are fcattered,... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is uo love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; "...part, which is in less neighbourhoods: but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without... | |
| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...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...love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, Magna ctvitat, magna solitude ; because, in a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that... | |
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