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 - Logic - 1915 - 272 pages
...for words are but the images T / of matter; and except they have life of reason and inven- ,. tion, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. t(dcn\ - »•»•** £• / .'••<-,.But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned,... | |
| Francis Bacon - Logic - 1915 - 266 pages
...a letter? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : l for words are but the images , of matter; and except they have life of reason and inven-) tion, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love / with a picture. But yet notwithstanding... | |
| Walter Arensberg - Acrostics - 1922 - 314 pages
...they haue life of reason and inuention : to fall in loue with them, is all one, as to fall in loue with a Picture. But yet notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily On the last five lines consider the following acrostic letters : fo c in a B Read: I, F. BACON. As... | |
| George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 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 but the images of matter; and except *"I have consumed ten years in reading Cicero." ' "Ass! " (in Greek and Latin). 4 To a greater or less... | |
| 1925 - 790 pages
..."Advancement of Learning" that "the first distemper of learning is when men study words and not matter; for words are but the images of matter; and except...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture". Again in the "Advancement of Learning" he referred to rhetoric as "an empty and verbal art". Sensitiveness... | |
| Keir Elam - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 360 pages
...representation: 'Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter; ... for words are but the images of matter; and except...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture' (1605: 24-5). The inaugurating gesture of Bacon's scientific enterprise, logically, is the classification... | |
| Brian Vickers - Science - 1986 - 428 pages
...seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are but images of matter; and except they have life of reason...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. (Ill, 284) Notes 1 Robin Horton, "African Traditional Thought and Modern Science," Africa, 37 (1967),... | |
| James Redmond - Drama - 1990 - 250 pages
...inquiry: 'Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter: . . .for words are but the images of matter: and except...reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all Language and ideological transformation in A King and No King 125 one as to fall in love with a picture'... | |
| Daniel N. Robinson - Psychology - 1995 - 390 pages
...than they have in the very matters which Luther addressed: Words are but the images of matter. . . . [T]o fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.4 In addition to stultifying reverence for antiquity, there are human inventions that stand... | |
| Denise Albanese - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 268 pages
...simulacral, whether words or paintings or statues: "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" (3.284). As the portrait of erotic transport makes clear, Pygmalion's desire codes the disruptive power... | |
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