 | Walter Begley - 1903 - 418 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." * We must be careful, however, to take these remarks as only directed against bare and excessive verbiage... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 216 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 life of reason and invention, to fall in 10 love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 pages
...words are but the images of mattej^and except they have life of reasfla. and jrjyerjjjpn^ to fall in 10 love with 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... | |
 | 1905 - 958 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. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1906 - 242 pages
...or portraiture of this vanity : for words are but the 10 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... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1907 - 534 pages
...substituted for real weight of meaning. " Of this vanity Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem ; for words are but the images of matter, and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." The second distemper is that which the Schoolmen exemplify, and the image of Scylla will stand for... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 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. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
 | Max freiherr von Waldberg - 1913 - 376 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...love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture;"*1, hat Bacon wohl auch in den Metamorphosen (X, 243 ff.) gelesen. Adv. p. 253 f. sucht Bacon... | |
 | 1913 - 582 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...and invention, to fall in love with them is all one äs to fall in love with a picture;"\ hat Bacon wohl auch in den Metamorphosen (X, 243 ff.) gelesen.... | |
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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. 
