 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.  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 28by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...learning exists more or less in all times 170 4. Attention to style ought not to be neglected . . 170 But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily...condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity, even of philo*"phy itself, with sensible and plausible elocution: But the excess of thin is so justly contemptible,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...for what are words but the images of matter? and, except they be animated with the spirit of reason, to fall in love with' them, is all one as to fall in love with a picture. Demetrius, the grammarian, finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...frenzy is a good emblem or portratture of this vanity, for words are but the images of matter ; ana e st { ie all one as to fall in love with a picture. 2. Origin of the prevalence of delicate learning in late... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1851 - 376 pages
...it hath large flourifhes, yet it is but a letter ? It feems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words are...the Images of matter ; and except they have life of reafon and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a Picture. But yet,... | |
 | Baptists - 1852 - 884 pages
...otherwise would be excellent. The •writer might advantageously study the lesson taught by Bacon, — " Words are but the images of matter ; and except they...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." We regret to be constrained thus to animadvert on a young beginner. One feature in our author commands... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter] It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words are...reason and invention, to fall in love with them is Jill one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good ; but within two days the part }•**, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity,... | |
 | Angus MACPHERSON - English language - 1854 - 46 pages
...learning, of which Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem ; for words are but the images of matter, and to fall in love with them, is all one as to fall in love with a picture." Words are but the concrete images of thought carved into definite form, and graven with the lineaments... | |
 | Education - 1857 - 1266 pages
...affectations as capable of no dirineness. Indeed, it seems to me, that Pygmalian's frenzy is a good emblem and portraiture of this 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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...flourishes, yet it it but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraature of this vanity, for words are but the images of matter...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. 2. Origin of the prevalence of delicate learning in late lnurx ' 170 3. Delicate learning exists more... | |
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