 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 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... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1865 - 358 pages
...conceptions would be a babble of unintelligible sounds ; ' for words,' says 1 Bacon, ' are but the image of matter ; and, except they have life of reason and...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.' If then a language were dictated, or in any other manner directly revealed to the earliest men, the... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...It seems to me that 15 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... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 78 pages
...portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter; and except they have life of reason or invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. . . . But the excess of this is so contemptible that. . . there is none of Hercules' followers in learning,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 80 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 life of reason or invention, to fall in lovs with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. . . . But the... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 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...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." Writings in which long and sonorous terms abound are sometimes said to be in the "Johnsonian style,"... | |
 | 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 - 398 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... | |
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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. 
