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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. "
Twenty of Bacon's essays, ed. by F. Storr - Page xii
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874
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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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The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White

Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...friends." — PH.EDRUS, 1. Ш, 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." Note 4, page 21, col. 1. From every point a ray of geniw flows ! By this means, when all nature wears...
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The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White ...

Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...friends," — Рнлписз, L ni, 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, and talk but а tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Note 4, page 21, col. 1. From every point a ray of genius...
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Sermons: Accompanied by Suitable Prayers, Designed to be Used in ..., Volume 1

John Relly Beard - 1831 - 492 pages
...though his powerful and well-stored mind could never have allowed him to feel the vacancy of solitude, " a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness."...
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Moral, Economical, and Political Essays

Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; " magna civitas, magna solitude;" because in a great town...
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A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank].

James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...every man is not a friend. A person may be solitary among thousands ; for, as Lord Bacon observes, — "A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures." This is one reason why many men gladly leave the pomp, selfishness, and disquiet of the world, to associate...
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Poems

Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 330 pages
...it with friends." PHTEDKUS, 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." P. 122,1. 4. From every point a ray of genius flows! By these means, when all nature wears a lowering...
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Poems

Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 320 pages
...it 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...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." P. 122,1.4. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By these means, when all nature wears a lowering...
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Poems

Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 436 pages
...indeed are all that a wise man can desire to assemble; " for a crowd is not company, and faces arc but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." P. 122, 1. 4. From every point a ray of genius Jiows ! By these means, when all nature wears a lowering...
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Oxford, a poem. (Poetical works of R. Montgomery).

Robert Montgomery - 1835 - 206 pages
...Esse putas fidas pectus amicitiae ? — * » * • Jam bene si coenem noster amicus erit!— MARTIAL. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...but a tinkling: cymbal, where there is no love.— BACON'S Essays, 27th. Et3 But should'st thou waver, when the awful hour Of pleasure tempteth with a...
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