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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. "
The two books of Francis Bacon: of the proficience and advancement of ... - Page 23
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century: 1650-1685

Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 388 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 2 5 Philosophie it selfe with sensible and plausible...
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...: vol.II, 1650-1685; vol.III ...

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 25 Philosophie it selfe with sensible and plausible...
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Litterarhistorische Forschungen

Max freiherr von Waldberg - 1913 - 374 pages
...vergleicht („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...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...
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Literarhistorische forschungen, Volumes 52-54

1913 - 582 pages
...vergleicht („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...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....
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Saint-Evremond als Kritiker, Volume 5

Ernst Mollenhauer - 1914 - 148 pages
...Jahrhunderts kaum erwähnt. Nur Bacon im Advancement of Learning 1605 lobt die anschauliche Darstellung. „But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to cloth and adorne the obscuritie even of Philosophie it seife with sensible and plausible elocution....
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The Cryptography of Shakespeare: Part one

Walter Arensberg - 1922 - 314 pages
...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 On the last five lines consider the following acrostic letters : fo c in a B Read: I, F. BACON. As...
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Rice Institute Pamphlet, Volumes 12-13

1925 - 790 pages
..."Advancement 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...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...
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Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse: Language-Games in the Comedies

Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 pages
...representation: '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...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...
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Occult Scientific Mentalities

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),...
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Themes in Drama: Volume 12, Drama and Philosophy

James Redmond - 1990 - 250 pages
...inquiry: '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...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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