 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 488 pages
...rhetoric as the art of dissimulation.1 'Matter' became more important than words. Bacon writes that 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'.4 Words were more likely to be trusted if they were plain. 'Pure and neat Language I love,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2003 - 488 pages
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 | Gabriele Knappe - 2004 - 696 pages
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 | A.P.R. Howatt, H.G. Widdowson - 2004 - 444 pages
...style, and eloquence. 'Words', in Bacon's view, were 'but the images of matter; and except they have a life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture'.14 The real world of things and events was the proper object of study and investigation, not... | |
 | Yvonne Bruce - 2005 - 292 pages
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 | W. Begley - 2005 - 404 pages
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 | Francis Bacon - 2005 - 144 pages
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 | Yvonne Bruce - 2005 - 296 pages
...aspects of Francis Bacon's dictum in The Advancement of Learning about the creative act: "words arc but the images of matter, and except they have life...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." Part 1. "Continuity and Discontinuity." takes iconoclasm as its chief subject. John Adrian traces the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2005 - 212 pages
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 | Francis Bacon - 2006 - 256 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. 
