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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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Essays--scientific, Political and Speculative, Volume 1

Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1858 - 460 pages
...genuine utterance of fellow-feeling outweighs the whole of it ? Mark the words of Bacon : — " For a crowd is not company, and faces are but -a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." If this be true, then it is only after acquaintance has grown into intimacy, and intimacy has ripened...
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Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck ...

Mary Anne Galton Schimmelpenninck - 1858 - 298 pages
...CHAP. IX. 1837—1846. " Affliction has a taste as sweet As any cordial comfort." SHAKESPEARE. " For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is not love." BACON. THE last day of 1837 was a Sunday. Mrs. SchimmelPenninck had just returned from the...
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The parable of the pilgrim ; Advice to a friend ; A treatise of repentance ...

Simon Patrick - 1858 - 784 pages
...no love ; for still he is alone, if that be not there. A crowd is not company (as a wise man says) ; and faces are but a gallery of pictures ; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. Nay, so natural is this to us (and withal so sweet), that I believe there is no man in the world who,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 115

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1864 - 762 pages
...he can unburden his soul in sorrow. In other words he expresses the same sentiment as Bacon, tint " a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk is but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." ' —Vol. ip 53. We cannot agree witli Mr. Forsyth...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1896 - 876 pages
...rhyme to 'icicle'? Bacon, ' 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.' Which meant that my liver was beginning to show its distaste for the seaside ; luckily I soon met Colonel...
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Rice Institute Pamphlet, Volumes 12-13

1925 - 790 pages
...of one who had long meditated on the inward secrets of this all-important relationship, friendship : "A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love". So wrote this man who mingled so assiduously in the crowded places where self-seekers foregathered...
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Great Solo Town

Thomas Babe - Drama - 1981 - 60 pages
...5117-Birds For Mimi, Merve, Mary 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 is a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna civitas,...
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Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens & José Rodríguez Feo

Wallace Stevens, José Rodríguez Feo - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 230 pages
...4. The essay by Bacon to which Jose refers is "On Friendship." He was remembering this passage: "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; because in a great town friends...
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Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship

Michael Pakaluk - Philosophy - 1991 - 292 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; because in a great town, friends...
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For a Special Friend

Ariel Books - Family & Relationships - 1992 - 100 pages
...them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes 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. — Francis Bacon The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow...
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