 | Francis Bacon - 1915 - 272 pages
...for words are but the images T / of matter; and except they have life of reason and inven- ,. tion, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. t(dcn\ - »•»•** £• / .'••<-,.But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1915 - 266 pages
...It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : l for words are but the images , of matter; and except they have life of reason and inven-) tion, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love / with a picture. But yet notwithstanding... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 pages
...consumed ten years in reading Cicero." ' "Ass! " (in Greek and Latin). 4 To a greater or less extent. they have life of reason and invention, to fall in...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 - 1929 - 328 pages
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 | 1930 - 724 pages
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 | Jerome Frank - 1935 - 400 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. 
