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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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Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric

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...
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The Puritan Millennium: Literature & Theology, 1550-1682

Crawford Gribben - 2000 - 232 pages
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Historical Dictionary of Quotations in Cognitive Science: A Treasury of ...

Morton Wagman - 2000 - 294 pages
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Rhetoric: A Text-book, Designed for Use in Schools and Colleges (1869)

Erastus Otis Haven - 2000 - 408 pages
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The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield

Richard Barnfield - 2001 - 400 pages
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 35

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...
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Literacy, Narrative and Culture

Jens Brockmeier, Min Wang, David R. Olson - 2002 - 314 pages
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The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-called Shakespeare ...

Ignatius Donnelly - 2002 - 508 pages
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The Major Works

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,...
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The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640

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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