 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
 | Frederic William Farrar - Language and languages - 1865 - 358 pages
...conceptions would be a babble of unintelligible sounds ; ' for words,' says 1 Bacon, ' are but the image of matter ; and, except they have life of reason and...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.' If then a language were dictated, or in any other manner directly revealed to the earliest men, the... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...it hath large flourishes, yet is but a letter? It seems to me that 15 Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are...adorn the obscurity even of philosophy itself with 16 sensible and plausible elocution; for hereof we have great examples in Xenophon, Cicero,. Seneca,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Classical education - 1867 - 80 pages
...men began to hunt more after words than matter." " It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are...'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... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Classical education - 1867 - 78 pages
...portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter; and except they have life of reason or invention, to fall in love 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 in learning, that... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 422 pages
...story, who is said to have made a statue and fallen in love with it after it was endowed with life. for words are but the images of matter ; and except...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 style,"... | |
 | 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 the obscurity... | |
 | Bible - 1871 - 832 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...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 with principles... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1872 - 398 pages
...story, who is said to have made a statue and fallen in love with it after it was endowed with life. for words are but the images of matter; and except...invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to full in love with a picture." y^ "Writings in which long and sonorous terms abound are sometimes said... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1872 - 602 pages
...patent, which, though finely flourished, is still but a letter. Pygmalion's frenzy seems a good emblem of this vanity;' for words are but the images of matter, and unless they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is to fall in -love with a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1873 - 438 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...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 the obscurity... | |
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