| Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...which though it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy 6 is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 154 pages
...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." In another passage, he puts the matter as follows : " Surely, like as many substances in Nature which... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1881 - 304 pages
...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." In another passage, he puts the matter as follows : " Surely, like as many substances in Nature which... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...though it 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...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
...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." In another passage, he puts the matter as follows : " Surely, like as many substances in Nature which... | |
| Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 562 pages
...example of late times, yet it hath been and will be, secundum et tnajus et minus, in all time. ... It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...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
...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...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
...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 love with a picture. 4. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." Miiller quotes Hegel as saying that " we think in names ; " and it may be true enough that we do sometimes... | |
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