 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 Works of Francis Bacon - Page 28by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 pages
...of this vanity : for words are but the images_j3f_mat£er ; and except !hey haveTife of reason""and invention, to fall in love with 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 300 pages
...though it hath large flourishes, yet is 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 the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture."... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 154 pages
...though it hath large flourishes, yet is 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 the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture."... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 304 pages
...though it hath large flourishes, yet is 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 the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to. fall in love with a picture."... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy 3 is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. Cambridge, and Ascham, 1 with their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, and... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1884 - 134 pages
...though it hath large flourishes, yet is 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 the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture."... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 562 pages
...be, secundum et tnajus et minus, in all time. ... It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." * Another reason for Bacon's indifference to English style was that he wrote for posterity and disbelieved... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 pages
...it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words are...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 pages
...it hath large flourishes, yet it is 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 sexcept they have life of reason and invention, to fall in i love with them is all one as to fall in... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - 376 pages
...it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter 1 It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity, for words are...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." * The Novum Organum, part of a vast, unfinished work called the Instauratio Magna, was published in... | |
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