 It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are but the images of matter; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.  Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning - Page xby Francis Bacon - 1851 - 341 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederic William Farrar - Classical education - 1867 - 80 pages
...words are but the 'images of matter; and except they have life of reason or invention, to fall in lovs with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. . . . But the excess of this is so contemptible that . . . there is none of Hercules' followers... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 422 pages
...with life. for words are but the images of matter ; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." Writings in which long and sonorous terms abound are sometimes said to be in the " Johnsonian... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1869 - 446 pages
...words are but the images of matter; and Ipxcept they have life of reason and invention, to fall in Jove with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. 4. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn... | |
 | Bible - 1871 - 832 pages
...vanity ; for words are but the images of matter ; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." — Bacon's Works, Vol. ii. pp. 36, 37. These remarks of Bacon are in no way inconsistent... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...vanity : for words are but the images_j3f_mat£er ; and except !hey haveTife of reason""and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. 4. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...vanity: for words are but the images of matter ; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...vanity; for words are but the images of matter, and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 300 pages
...vanity : for words are but the images of matter; and, except they have the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." In another passage, he puts the matter as follows : " Surely, like as many substances in... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 154 pages
...vanity : for words are but the images of matter; and, except they have the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." In another passage, he puts the matter as follows : " Surely, like as many substances in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 304 pages
...vanity : for words are but the images of matter; and, except they have the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to. fall in love with a picture." In another passage, he puts the matter as follows : " Surely, like as many substances in... | |
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