 | 金圣才 - 2006 - 488 pages
...['emblem] n. H3$L, ISJ^, ffi*% [i^S] It seems that Pygmalion's frenzy is a goodof this vanity, for words are but the images of matter; and except they have...reason and invention, to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture. A · emb ] 旺eB · embeu 五shC · embodyD · emblem 答案为D 。... | |
 | Hannah Dawson - 2007
...underlying matter. Bacon likens those men who 'study words and not matter' to Pygmalion: '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'.42 The power of sensible words is evinced in the various arts of memory. Verbal sensibility... | |
 | Edwin Davies - 2008 - 688 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. 
