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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. "
Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the ... - Page 115
by Ancient learning - 1812
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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 - Families - 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 - English essays - 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...The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; " magna civitas, magna solitude;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that...
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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 - English poetry - 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 - Fore-edge painting - 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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