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
| Nathaniel Holmes - Idealism - 1888 - 518 pages
...come, were inseparable from the thought, or were impossible without thought. " Words," says Bacon, " are but the images of matter ; and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." Miiller quotes Hegel as saying that " we think in names ; " and it may be true enough that we do sometimes... | |
| Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 520 pages
...It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity, for wonts arc but the images of matter; and, except they have life...and invention, to fall in love with them is all one to fall in love with a picture. We hear the echo of this thought in Hamlet's contemptuous iteration:... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 628 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...yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be con'lemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity even of philosophy t^elf with sensible and plausible... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 pages
...Pygmalion's frenzy seems a good emblem of this vanity; y 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 picture. Yet the illustrating the obscurities of philosophy with sensible and... | |
| Francis Bacon - Logic - 1901 - 606 pages
...Pygmalion's frenzy seems a good emblem of this vanity ;f 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 picture. Yet the illustrating the obscurities of philosophy with sensible and... | |
| Edwin Reed - 1902 - 468 pages
...for Measure, iii. 2 (1623). From Bacon "It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy [insania] is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture [siafua]." — Advancement of Learning ( 1 603-5). 301 IFS AND AMiR " When the parties were met themselves,... | |
| Edwin Reed - 1902 - 478 pages
...for Measure, iii. 2 (1623). From Bacon "It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy [insamia] is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are...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).... | |
| Edwin Reed - 1902 - 462 pages
...which we are pictures." Hamlet, iv. 5 (1604). " 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." — Advancement of Learning (1603-5). Ei 193 Man without judgment is a picture. — Shake-speare. Man... | |
| Francis Bacon - Logic - 1902 - 440 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... | |
| Walter Begley - 1903 - 418 pages
...learning when men study words and not matter. ... 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." * We must be careful, however, to take these remarks as only directed against bare and excessive verbiage... | |
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