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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. "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 331
by George Burnett - 1807
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Sidney in Retrospect: Selections from English Literary Renaissance

Arthur F. Kinney - 1988 - 290 pages
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Themes in Drama: Volume 12, Drama and Philosophy

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'...
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The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers

J. O. Urmson, Jonathan Rée - 1991 - 331 pages
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Writers on Writing: An Anthology

Robert Neale - 1992 - 280 pages
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New Directions in Theatre

Julian Hilton - 1993 - 200 pages
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The Advancement of Learning: With a Brief Memoir of the Author

Francis Bacon - 1994 - 160 pages
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The Stage Am I?: Raping Lucrece in Early Modern England

Mercedes Maroto Camino - 1995 - 236 pages
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The Emperor’s New Clothes: Literature, Literacy, and the Ideology of Style

Kathryn T. Flannery - 1995 - 264 pages
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An Intellectual History of Psychology

Daniel N. Robinson - 1995 - 390 pages
...than they have in the very matters which Luther addressed: Words are but the images of matter. . . . [T]o fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.4 In addition to stultifying reverence for antiquity, there are human inventions that stand...
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New Science, New World

Denise Albanese - 1996 - 272 pages
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