 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 pages
...letter of a patent, or limned book ; which though it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...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
...letter of a patent or limned book, which, though it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter 1 It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...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 Novum... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 520 pages
...The nimble spirits in the arteries.1 And in this connection we have the following opinion of Bacon: It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity, for wonts arc but the images of matter; and, except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1888 - 518 pages
...come, were inseparable from the thought, or were impossible without thought. " Words," says Bacon, " 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." Miiller quotes... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 624 pages
...letter of a patent or limned book ; which though it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...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. But yet, notwithstanding,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 638 pages
...letter of a patent or limned book ; which though it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...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. But yet, notwithstanding,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 pages
...letter of a patent or limned book; which though it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...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. But yet notwithstanding... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 468 pages
...— Measure for Measure, iii. 2 (1623). From Bacon "It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy [insania] is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for...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 [siafua]." —... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1902 - 440 pages
...patent, which, though finely flourished, is still but a letter. Pygmalion's frenzy seems a good emblem of this vanity;" for words are but the images of matter, and unless they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a... | |
 | Walter Begley - 1903 - 418 pages
...philosophy and truth. " It is," he says, " the first distemper of learning when men study words and not matter. ... It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy...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." * We must be... | |
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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. 
