 | Markku Peltonen - 1996 - 406 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. (Ill, 284) Rawley, his chaplain and secretary, recorded that Bacon "would often ask if the meaning... | |
 | Roy Harris - 1996 - 350 pages
...conceptions would be a babble of unintelligible sounds; 'for words,' says10 Bacon, 'are but the image of matter; and, except they have life of reason and...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.' If then a language were dictated, or in any The number is very uncertain. Pott reckons about a thousand,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1996 - 872 pages
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 | Judith H. Anderson - 1996 - 372 pages
...copie [ie, copia] of speech" to Pygmalion's frenzy, "for words are but the images of matter; and ... to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." 33 For Bacon at least, words without material warrant have simply become unreal. Characterizing Erasmus's... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 2003 - 655 pages
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 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 pages
...good emblem or portraiture of this vanity, for words are but the images of matter, and except when they have life of reason and invention, to fall in...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity even of philosophy... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 445 pages
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 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...Boy', translated from the Irish by Michael O'Donovan; in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations 38:6 Words are but the images of matter; and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. Francis Bacon, 1605, The Advancement of Learning, I, Sect. 3 38:7 'Some people', Miss R. said, 'run... | |
 | José Trías Monge - 2000 - 510 pages
...matter... 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...love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.5 La peor enfermedad o vicio del conocimiento, de la que acusaba a los historiadores eclesiásticos,... | |
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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. 
