| Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 540 pages
...... 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...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." * Another reason for Bacon's indifference to English style was that he wrote for posterity and disbelieved... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 pages
...? 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...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. 4. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 pages
...words are but the images of matter ; and sexcept they have life of reason and invention, to fall in i love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. 4. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
| Nathaniel Holmes - 1888 - 518 pages
...come, were inseparable from the thought, or were impossible without thought. " Words," says Bacon, " are but the images of matter ; and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." Miiller quotes Hegel as saying that " we think in names ; " and it may be true enough that we do sometimes... | |
| Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 520 pages
...It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity, for wonts arc but the images of matter; and, except they have life...and invention, to fall in love with them is all one to fall in love with a picture. We hear the echo of this thought in Hamlet's contemptuous iteration:... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 624 pages
...? 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...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... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 628 pages
...? 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...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be con'lemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 pages
...? 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...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 - 1900 - 542 pages
...Pygmalion's frenzy seems a good emblem of this vanity; y 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 picture. Yet the illustrating the obscurities of philosophy with sensible and... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1901 - 606 pages
...Pygmalion's frenzy seems a good emblem of this vanity ;f 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 picture. Yet the illustrating the obscurities of philosophy with sensible and... | |
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