 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy 6 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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 154 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 304 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy 3 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. Cambridge, and Ascham, 1 with their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, and... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1884 - 134 pages
...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... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 540 pages
...... 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." * Another reason for Bacon's indifference to English style was that he wrote for posterity and disbelieved... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 pages
...? 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. 4. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 pages
...words are but the images of matter ; and sexcept they have life of reason and invention, to fall in i 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1888 - 518 pages
...come, were inseparable from the thought, or were impossible without thought. " Words," says Bacon, " are but the images of matter ; and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." Miiller quotes Hegel as saying that " we think in names ; " and it may be true enough that we do sometimes... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 520 pages
...It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity, for wonts arc but the images of matter; and, except they have life...and invention, to fall in love with them is all one to fall in love with a picture. We hear the echo of this thought in Hamlet's contemptuous iteration:... | |
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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. 
