 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
 | Francis Bacon - Didactic literature, English - 1900 - 462 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... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 462 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 [statua}." — A dvan cement of Learning (1 603-5). 301 ITS AND ANDS "When the parties were... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 478 pages
...words are but the images of matter ; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in lore with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture \statva\."— Advancement of Learning (1603-5). 301 ITS AITD AVDS "When the parties were met... | |
 | Walter Begley - 1903 - 418 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." * We must be careful, however, to take these remarks as only directed against bare and excessive... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1904 - 220 pages
...words are but the images of mattej^and except they have life of reasfla. and jrjyerjjjpn^ to fall in 10 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... | |
 | 1905 - 958 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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English literature - 1906 - 242 pages
...for words are but the 10 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 Nature... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - Philosophy - 1907 - 534 pages
...matters of style and 'polished phrases are substituted for real weight of meaning. " Of this vanity Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem ; 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... | |
 | Max freiherr von Waldberg - German literature - 1913 - 374 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;"*1, hat Bacon wohl auch in den Metamorphosen (X, 243 ff.) gelesen. Adv. p. 253 f. sucht Bacon... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1913 - 624 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... | |
| |
