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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 Works of Francis Bacon - Page 28
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819
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A History of ELT, Second Edition

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...
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Images of Matter: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and ...

Yvonne Bruce - 2005 - 296 pages
...against the vain employment of copious expression: "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." 1 Despite Bacon's subsequent admission that matter modestly clothed by art has merit, the warning that...
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硕士研究生英语学位课程考试: 词汇突破

金圣才 - 2006 - 488 pages
...词汇突破 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;...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 。...
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Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy

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...
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The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1920 - 96 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...
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The Indian Medical Gazette, Volume 8

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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...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 ; ana except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall...
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