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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. "
The Essays of Francis Bacon - Page 81
by Francis Bacon - 1908 - 227 pages
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Solitude, Volume 2

Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1805 - 394 pages
...heathens ; as Epimcnides, the Arcadian ; tfuma, the Roman; LmpcdocUs, the Sicilian; and Appollanius, of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...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...
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Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...heathens; as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Romau ; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius, of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is uo love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; " magna civitas, magna solitudo;" because in a great...
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Poems

Samuel Rogers - 1816 - 260 pages
...with friends." PH^EDRDS, 1. iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man would 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." NoTEd. P. 72, 1. 16. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By this means, when all nature wears...
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Poems

Samuel Rogers - 1816 - 276 pages
...wilh friends." PH.SDRUS, 1. iii. Qi These indeed are all that a wise man would 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." NoxEd. P. 72, 1. 16. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By this means, when all nature wears...
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Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains ...

Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pages
...of the heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...pictures ; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is u" love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; ' Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great...
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The Pleasures of Memory, and Other Poems

Samuel Rogers - 1820 - 160 pages
...with friends." PHA.EDRCS, 1. iii. 9. 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, ami talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." BACON'S Essays, xxvii. NOTE 4. Page 73. From...
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Poems

Samuel Rogers - 1822 - 340 pages
...with friends." PH^DRUS, 1. iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man would 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." P. 124, 1. 16. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By this means, when all nature wears a lowering...
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Handbuch der englischen sprache und literature, Volume 1

H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...the Candían, N11 га a the Roman, **) Empedocles the Sicilian,***) and Apol — loniui of Tyana;f) and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits,...solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd ij not company and face» are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there...
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Outlines of truth, by a lady

Outlines - 1825 - 288 pages
...numerous acquaintance ; Bacon's definition of its emptiness was always assimilated with my judgment: " A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Such an aphorism will limit our association, even with the most eminent and amiable among the followers...
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The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White ...

Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...friends.« — PHXDRUS, 1. iii, o.. These indeed are all that a wise man would desire in assemble; « for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling супаbal, where Uicrc is no love.» Note 4, page 21, col. i. From етегу polot • ray of genial...
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