 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...words are but the images of matter; and Ipxcept they have life of reason and invention, to fall in Jove with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. 4. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
 | 1871 - 832 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...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." — Bacon's Works, Vol. ii. pp. 36, 37. These remarks of Bacon are in no way inconsistent with principles... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1872 - 404 pages
...is said to have made a statue and fallen in love with it after it was endowed with life. for words are but the images of matter; and except they have...invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to full in love with a picture." y^ "Writings in which long and sonorous terms abound are sometimes said... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1872 - 602 pages
...Pygmalion's frenzy seems a good emblem of this vanity;' for words are but the images of matter, and unless they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is to fall in -love with a picture. Yet the illustrating the obscurities of philosophy with sensible and... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...letter? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy5 is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: 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 - 1876 - 506 pages
...of this vanity : for words are but the images_j3f_mat£er ; and except !hey haveTife of reason""and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. 4. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 300 pages
...emblem or 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 one as to fall in love with a picture." In another passage, he puts the matter as follows : " Surely, like as many substances in Nature which... | |
 | 1880 - 32 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. 
