 | George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...letter of a patent or limned book; which, though it hath large flouviskes, yet it is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...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. Among various... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...letter of a patent or limned book* which, though it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...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. Among various... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...letter of a patent or limned book; which, though 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; /or •tvords are but the images of matter, and except they have life' of reason and invention, to... | |
 | John Locke - 1808 - 346 pages
...student of Philosophy this Epitome ; in which he has endeavoured to give the spirit, without servile* " Words are but the images of matter ; and except they have life of reason and invention, to faH in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." Bacon's Projicience... | |
 | 1852 - 862 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 have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." We regret to... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 550 pages
...letter of a patent or limned book; which, though it hath large nourishes, yet it is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...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. Among various... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 324 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...it hath large flourishes, yet it is but » letter? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is agood emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words are...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. But yet, notwithstanding,... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...into truth, but will despise those delicacies and affectations as capable of no divineness. Indeed it seems to me, that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good...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 pict\ire. But yet, notwithstanding,... | |
 | 1821 - 398 pages
...into truth, but will despise those delicacies and aifectations as capable of no divineness. Indeed it seems to me, that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good...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. But yet, notwithstanding,... | |
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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. 
