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" 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 28
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819
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The Cambridge Companion to Bacon

Markku Peltonen - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 406 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. (Ill, 284) Rawley, his chaplain and secretary, recorded that Bacon "would often ask if the meaning...
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Origin Of Language

Roy Harris - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 350 pages
...conceptions would be a babble of unintelligible sounds; 'for words,' says10 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 The number is very uncertain. Pott reckons about a thousand,...
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Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English

Judith H. Anderson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 372 pages
...copie [ie, copia] of speech" to Pygmalion's frenzy, "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." 33 For Bacon at least, words without material warrant have simply become unreal. Characterizing Erasmus's...
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Selected Philosophical Works

Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - Philosophy - 1999 - 340 pages
...though it has 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 when they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love...
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Teoría de adjudicación

José Trías Monge - Law - 2000 - 510 pages
...of 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...love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.5 La peor enfermedad o vicio del conocimiento, de la que acusaba a los historiadores eclesiásticos,...
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Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages

David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...To a Boy', translated from the Irish by Michael O'Donovan; in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations 38:6 Words are but the images of matter; and except they...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. Francis Bacon, 1605, The Advancement of Learning, I, Sect. 3 38:7 'Some people', Miss R. said, 'run...
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Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric

Wayne A. Rebhorn - European literature - 2000 - 340 pages
...it hath large flourishes,47 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 all one48 as to fall in love with a picture.49 But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 35

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...rhetoric as the art of dissimulation.3 'Matter' became more important than words. Bacon writes that words ' are but the images of matter; and except they...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture '. 4 Words were more likely to be trusted if they were plain. 'Pure and neat Language I love, yet plaine...
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The Major Works

Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...it hath large flourishes,0 yet it is but a letter? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy0 is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are...reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one0 as to fall in love with a pictureBut yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned,...
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The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640

William James Bouwsma - History - 2002 - 328 pages
...essence to the names, since things come first." Bacon saw words as "but the images of matter," so that "to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." For the essayist Sir William Cornwallis, words were "but clothes; matters substance." It was increasingly...
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