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 - 1904 - 216 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...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
...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 I except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in 10 love with them is all one as to fall... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 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 mattej^and except they have life of reasfla. and jrjyerjjjpn^ to fall in 10 love with them is all one... | |
| 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 - 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Max freiherr von Waldberg - 1913 - 374 pages
...über den Worten die Dinge vergessen, vergleicht („It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are...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... | |
| 1913 - 582 pages
...über den Worten die Dinge vergessen, vergleicht („It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are...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.... | |
| 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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