 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 pages
...Pygmalion's frenzy seems a good emblem of this vanity; y 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 606 pages
...Pygmalion's frenzy seems a good emblem of this vanity ;f 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... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 468 pages
..."It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy [insania] is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter ; and except...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture [siafua]." — Advancement of Learning ( 1 603-5). 301 IFS AND AMiR " When the parties were met themselves,... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 478 pages
..."It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy [insamia] 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 lore with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture \statva\."— Advancement of Learning (1603-5).... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 462 pages
...which we are pictures." Hamlet, iv. 5 (1604). " Except they be animated with the spirit of reason, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." — Advancement of Learning (1603-5). Ei 193 Man without judgment is a picture. — Shake-speare. Man... | |
 | Walter Begley - 1903 - 418 pages
...matter. ... 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...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." * We must be careful, however, to take these remarks as only directed against bare and excessive verbiage... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 216 pages
...but a 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 life of reason and invention, to fall in 10 love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 pages
...have life of reason and invention, to fall in 10 love with them is all one as to fall in love witF a picture. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be _7 condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity even of philosophy itself with sensible and plausible... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1906 - 242 pages
...or portraiture of this vanity : for words are but the 10 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... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 374 pages
...except they haue life of reason and inuention, to fall in loue with them is all one as to fall in loue with a Picture. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemmed, to cloath and adorne the obscuritie euen of *5 Philosophie it selfe with sensible and plausible... | |
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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. 
