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" 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
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Philosophical Inquiry, Volumes 7-9

1985 - 420 pages
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Milton's Poetry: Its Development in Time

Edward W. Tayler - 1979 - 296 pages
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Francis Bacon

Anthony Quinton - 1980 - 104 pages
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Psychology and Society: In Search of Symbiosis

Richard A. Kasschau, Frank S. Kessel - 1980 - 296 pages
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Pegasus: Classical Essays from the University of Exeter

H. W. Stubbs - 1981 - 166 pages
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Rice Institute Pamphlet, Volumes 12-13

1925 - 790 pages
...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 they have...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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Classic and Cavalier: Essays on Jonson and the Sons of Ben

Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - 1982 - 318 pages
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The Meaning of Freedom

Philip Drew - 1982 - 568 pages
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Seventeenth-century Prose and Poetry

Alexander Maclaren Witherspoon, Frank J. Warnke - 1982 - 1124 pages
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The Trumpeter, Volumes 5-7

1988 - 592 pages
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