 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 - Strona 28autor: Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - Liczba stron: 784
...for what are words but the images of matter ? and except they be animated with the spirit of reason, to fall in love with them, is all one as to fall in love with a picture. Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers chatting together,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - Liczba stron: 538
...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. (a) See note (A) at the end. 2. Origin of the prevalence of delicate learning in late times (b) ........... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - Liczba stron: 458
...learning, of which Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem ; for words are but the images of matter, and to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." (b) These different subjects are classed under the quaint observatione dignum (licet nobis modernis... | |
 | 1837 - Liczba stron: 352
...affectations as capable of no divineness. Indeed, it seems to me, that Pygmalian's frenzy is a good emblem and 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.... | |
 | 1871 - Liczba stron: 870
...it hath large flourishes, yet it is hut a letter. It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are...except they have life of reason and invention, to full in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." — Bacon's Works, Vol. ii. pp.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - Liczba stron: 732
...seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emhlem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are hut the images of matter, and except they have life of...yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to he condemned, to clothe and adorn the ohscurity, even of philosophy itself, with sensihle and plausihle... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - Liczba stron: 580
...letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity J ; for words are but the images of matter ; and except...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. * Fluency., f Donkey. + He is said to have fallen in love with a beautiful statue which he had himself... | |
 | 1847 - Liczba stron: 632
...study words and not matter. It seems to me that Pygmalion's phrensy is a good emblem of this fault ; for words are but the images of matter; and except...they have life of reason and invention, to fall in lore with them, ia all one as to fall in love with a picture." ject of man's moral agency is a matter... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - Liczba stron: 360
...affectations as capable of no diTineness. Indeed, it seems to me, that Pygmalion's frenzy ia a good emblem and 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 as one as to fall in love with a... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - Liczba stron: 366
...affectations as capable of no divineness. Indeed, it seems to me, that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem and 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 as one as to fall in love with a... | |
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