 | Wayne A. Rebhorn - 2000 - 340 pages
...letter? 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...reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one48 as to fall in love with a picture.49 But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be... | |
 | Morton Wagman - 2000 - 294 pages
...skill. (Holliday & Chandler, 1986, p. 80) WORDS Words and Images Words are but the images of matter ... to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. (Bacon, 1878, p. 120) WORDS The First Symbols of the Child Are WordSentences Designating Action Chamberlin,... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 228 pages
...as the art of dissimulation.3 'Matter' became more important than words. Bacon writes that words ' are but the images of matter; and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture '. 4 Words were more likely to be trusted if they were plain. 'Pure and neat Language I love, yet plaine... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...letter? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy0 is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are but the images of matter; and except they have...reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one0 as to fall in love with a pictureBut yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned,... | |
 | William James Bouwsma - 2002 - 328 pages
...essence to the names, since things come first." Bacon saw words as "but the images of matter," so that "to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." For the essayist Sir William Cornwallis, words were "but clothes; matters substance." It was increasingly... | |
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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. 
