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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 Works of Francis Bacon ...: Literary and professional works - Page 810
by Francis Bacon - 1859
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how for it extendeth ; for ec * Whose image thou art ; him thou shalt enjoy, Inseparably aud то 164». talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage ineetcth with it...
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Études littéraires ou cours complet de littérature anglaise

Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it exlendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces i are but a gallery of pictures , and talk but a tinkling cymbal wbere thereis no love. The latin adage raeeteth with it a litlle : 18 ' Magna civitas, magna solitude...
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Spring-tide: Or, The Angler and His Friends

John Yonge Akerman - English literature - 1850 - 242 pages
...my fellow-men. It has been well remarked that solitude reigns supreme in the greatest cities, " for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love." J. This love of a country life is after all, I believe, inherent, and scarcely to be acquired. S. Perhaps...
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...perceive what solitude is, and how far it extended). For a crowd is not company, and faces are but n gallery of pictures; and 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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Poems

Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1851 - 328 pages
...with friends."—PH^EDRUS, iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man cau 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 4. From O'er?/ point a ray of genius fluv:s ! , By these means, when all nature wears...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...fathers of the church. 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...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitudo,' — [' Great city, great...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...fathers of the church. 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...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitude,' — [' Great city, great...
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...fathers of the church. 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...pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no loce. — Bacon's Essays. To ait on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, with notes by A. Spiers

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; fora crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; "magna civitas, magna solitudo;" because in a great town...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral ; And, Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...holy Fathers of the Church. 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...Talk but a tinkling Cymbal, where there is no Love. The Latin Adage meeteth with it a little ; Magna Civitas, magna Solitudo ; becaufe in a great Town,...
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