 | 1837 - 352 pages
...emblem and portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter, and except they have the 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, it is not hastily to be condemned to clothe and adorn the obscurity even... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...represented an example of late times, yet it hath been, and will be secundum majus et minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...Donkey. * He is said to have fallen in love with a bcautiful statue which he had himself sculptured. are but the images of matter; and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe, and adorn the obscurity,... | |
 | 1871 - 870 pages
...for words are but the images of matter ; and except they have life of reason and invention, to full in love with 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...example of late times, yet it hath been, and will be, " secundum majns et minus " in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emhlem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are hut the images of matter, and except they have life of...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to he condemned, to clothe and adorn the ohscurity,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity J ; for words are but the images of matter ; and except...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. * Fluency., f Donkey. + He is said to have fallen in love with a beautiful statue which he had himself... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 pages
...emblem and portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter, and except they have the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all as one as to fall in love with a picture.'' — Bacon. Three years will quickly slip away, And then... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 360 pages
...emblem and portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter, and except they have the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all as one as to fall in love with a picture." — Bacon. * Three years will quickly slip away, And then... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...for what are words but the images of matter? and, 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. Demetrius, the grammarian, finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together,... | |
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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. 
