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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. "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England - Page ix
by Francis Bacon - 1825
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English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restoration

Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 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...
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Litterarhistorische Forschungen

Max freiherr von Waldberg - 1913 - 374 pages
...allegorisierenden Art, Adv. p. 30, mit den Scholastikern, die über den Worten die Dinge vergessen, vergleicht („It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good...love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture;"*1, hat Bacon wohl auch in den Metamorphosen (X, 243 ff.) gelesen. Adv. p. 253 f. sucht Bacon...
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Rice Institute Pamphlet, Volumes 12-13

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...
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Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse: Language-Games in the Comedies

Keir Elam - 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...
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Occult Scientific Mentalities

Brian Vickers - 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),...
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Elizabethan Popular Culture

Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 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...
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Themes in Drama: Volume 12, Drama and Philosophy

James Redmond - 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'...
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An Intellectual History of Psychology

Daniel N. Robinson - 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...
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The Cambridge Companion to Bacon

Markku Peltonen - 1996 - 406 pages
...2.85), so that it is a true distemper [disorder] of learning, when men study words and not matter . . . It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...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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New Science, New World

Denise Albanese - 1996 - 268 pages
...thing. All artificial signs become equivalently simulacral, whether words or paintings or statues: "It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good...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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