These indeed are all 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.

_From every point a ray of genius flows!_

By this means, when all nature wears a lowering countenance, I
withdraw myself into the visionary worlds of art; where I meet with
shining landscapes, gilded triumphs, beautiful faces, and all those
other objects that fill the mind with gay ideas, &c. ADDISON.

It is remarkable that Antony, in his adversity, passed some time in a
small but splendid retreat, which he called his Timonium, and from
which might originate the idea of the Parisian Boudoir, that
favourite apartment, _ou I'on se retire pour étre seul, mais ou l'on
ne boude point_. STRABO, 1. xvii. PLUT, in Vit. Anton.

NOTE e.

_At GUIDO'S call, &c_.

Alluding to his celebrated fresco in the Rospigliosi Palace at Rome.

NOTE f.

_And still the Few best lov'd and most rever'd_