 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 British Prose Writers - Pàgina 891821Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 352 pàgines
...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 of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, wjiere there is no love." P. 141, 1. 24. From every point a ray of genius flaws! By these means, when... | |
 | State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania - 1843 - 550 pàgines
...associate in crime is to be severely punished, what benefits then can they derive from working together, "for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures." But should they even allow the prisoners under the associate system to correspond or mingle indiscriminately... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 pàgines
...Bacon's death— Thomas Farnuby produced unThere is a peace or unity Grounded upon implicit ignorance. Faces are but a gallery of pictures. And talk but a tinkling cymbal where other poem by Bacon— and accepted by Tnerp js no ]oye Spedding as Bacon's work— an expauI have,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pàgines
...First Preliminary DKscrtatlnn to ' Encyclopedia Britimnica,' л- •'"'» »evtMUh edition. FROH 1558 k her part was done, And that her reign hail here its last fulfill niceteth with it a little : ' Magna ci vi tau, msgna solitude' — [' Groat city, great solitude']... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 pàgines
...with friends." — 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...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 pàgines
...following passages are the most notable, or those that best admit of bemg separated from the context :— Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pàgines
...passages are the most notahle, or those that hest admit of heing •••parated from the context:— Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are hut a gallery of pictures, and talk hut a tinkling cymhal, where there is no love. » It is a strange... | |
 | 1878 - 300 pàgines
...made a song in haying-time. He was no poet while a farmer, and no farmer while a poet. — Hawthorne. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extends. FACTS, HINTS, GEMS, AND POETRY. For a crowd is no company; men's faces are but like pictures... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pàgines
...heathens — as F.pimenides, he Candían ; Numa, the Roman ; Kmpedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius, her to your despairing arms : Indeed you thank'd me...Rose in her soul : for from that hour she lov'd me, T soliude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not •omiHiny, and faces are but a gallery of... | |
 | 1744 - 726 pàgines
...replied, " I wish I 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... | |
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