 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 pages
...emblem and portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter, and except they have the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all as one as to fall in love with a picture.'' — Bacon. Three years will quickly slip away, And then... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...for what are words but the images of matter? and, except they be animated with the spirit of reason, to fall in love with' them, is all one as to fall in love with a picture. Demetrius, the grammarian, finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words !h T PgJ uߐ Q gn9~瓉 kts O ~ w_ c ߶dÿncw i p̌...&S n )h J۶ tZ +DdP6 t * |be ]ڳu f & u\ 2fg1 #e g But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...frenzy is a good emblem or portratture of this vanity, for words are but the images of matter ; ana e st { ie all one as to fall in love with a picture. 2. Origin of the prevalence of delicate learning in late... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1851 - 376 pages
...? It feems 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 reafon and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a Picture. But yet,... | |
 | 1852 - 884 pages
...would be excellent. The •writer might advantageously study the lesson taught by Bacon, — " Words are but the images of matter ; and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." We regret to be constrained thus to animadvert on a young beginner. One feature in our author commands... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity:i for words are but the images of matter ; and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 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 Jill one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words 2 But }•**, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity,... | |
 | Angus MACPHERSON - 1854 - 46 pages
...learning, of which Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem ; 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." Words are but the concrete images of thought carved into definite form, and graven with the lineaments... | |
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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. 
