 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.  Francis Bacon: An Account of His Life and Works - Page 453by Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...which though it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy5 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 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...portraiture 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 300 pages
...letter of a patent, or a limned book; which, though it hath large flourishes, yet is but a letter? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...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 - 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 304 pages
...letter of a patent, or a limned book ; which, though it hath large flourishes, yet is but a letter? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...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
...letter of a patent, or a limned book ; which, though it hath large flourishes, yet is but a letter? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...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
...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
...letter of a patent, or a limned book; which, though it hath large flourishes, yet is but a letter? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...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 - 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... | |
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