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. Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 331 by George Burnett - 1807 Full view -
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