 | 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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1915 - 270 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... | |
 | 1925 - 786 pages
...of Learning" that "the first distemper of learning is when men study words and not matter; for words are but the images of matter; and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture". Again in the "Advancement of Learning" he referred to rhetoric as "an empty and verbal art". Sensitiveness... | |
 | Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 pages
...'Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter; ... for words are but the images of matter; and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture' (1605: 24-5). The inaugurating gesture of Bacon's scientific enterprise, logically, is the classification... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1986 - 428 pages
...seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are but images of matter; and except they have life of reason...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. (Ill, 284) Notes 1 Robin Horton, "African Traditional Thought and Modern Science," Africa, 37 (1967),... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 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... | |
 | James Redmond - 1990 - 250 pages
...therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter: . . .for words are but the images of matter: and except they have...reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all Language and ideological transformation in A King and No King 125 one as to fall in love with a picture'... | |
| |
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. 
