| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 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 - 1850 - 590 pages
...frenzy is a good emblem or portratture of this vanity, for words are but the images of matter ; ana e st { ie all one as to fall in love with a picture. 2. Origin of the prevalence of delicate learning in late... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1851 - 376 pages
...Learning, of which Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem; 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 Pitfure. Thefe different fubjefts are clafled under the quaint expreffion of Dijlempers of Learning... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...with vulgar capacities, when they see learned men's works like the first letter of a patent or amned book : which though it hath large flourishes, yet...reason and invention, to fall in love with them is Jill one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity:i for words are but the images of matter ; and except...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... | |
| 1852 - 884 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...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." We regret to be constrained thus to animadvert on a young beginner. One feature in our author commands... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...represented an example of late times, yet it hath been, and will be secundum majus et minus in all fime. And ght lost their But }•**, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity,... | |
| Angus MACPHERSON - 1854 - 46 pages
...learning, of which Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem ; 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." Words are but the concrete images of thought carved into definite form, and graven with the lineaments... | |
| Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 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 - 1859 - 852 pages
...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...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... | |
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