 | 1985 - 420 pages
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 | Anthony Quinton - 1980 - 104 pages
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 | H. W. Stubbs - 1981 - 166 pages
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 | 1925 - 786 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... | |
 | Philip Drew - 1982 - 568 pages
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 | 1988 - 592 pages
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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. 
