| 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 - 504 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... | |
| 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... | |
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