 | William James Bouwsma - 2002 - 328 pages
...essence to the names, since things come first." Bacon saw words as "but the images of matter," so that "to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." For the essayist Sir William Cornwallis, words were "but clothes; matters substance." It was increasingly... | |
 | A.P.R. Howatt, H.G. Widdowson - 2004 - 444 pages
...style, and eloquence. 'Words', in Bacon's view, were 'but the images of matter; and except they have a life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture'.14 The real world of things and events was the proper object of study and investigation, not... | |
 | Yvonne Bruce - 2005 - 296 pages
...aspects of Francis Bacon's dictum in The Advancement of Learning about the creative act: "words arc but the images of matter, and except they have life...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." Part 1. "Continuity and Discontinuity." takes iconoclasm as its chief subject. John Adrian traces the... | |
 | 金圣才 - 2006 - 488 pages
...emblem ['emblem] n. H3$L, ISJ^, ffi*% [i^S] It seems that Pygmalion's frenzy is a goodof this vanity, for words are but the images of matter; and except...reason and invention, to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture. A · emb ] 旺eB · embeu 五shC · embodyD · emblem 答案为D 。... | |
 | Hannah Dawson - 2007 - 295 pages
...probe the underlying matter. Bacon likens those men who 'study words and not matter' to Pygmalion: 'for words are but the images of matter; and except...love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture'.42 The power of sensible words is evinced in the various arts of memory. Verbal sensibility... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1920 - 96 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...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... | |
 | 1873 - 358 pages
...therefore," Lord Bacon exclaims, " is the first distemper of learning when men study words not matter ; for words are but the images of matter, and, except...invention to fall in love with them, is all one as to full in love witli a picture." The great prophet of inductive philosophy has here touched the very... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity, for words are but the images of matter ; ana on to his own line and blood, and liking that title...him independent ; and being in his nature and cons 3. Origin of the prevalence of delicate learning in late times' 170 3. Delicate learning exists more... | |
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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. 
