 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.  Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning - الصفحة xبواسطة Francis Bacon - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 341عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | George Reuben Potter - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 640
..."Ass! " (in Greek and Latin). 4 To a greater or less extent. 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 it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the... | |
 | 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 790
...matter; 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". Again in the "Advancement of Learning" he referred to rhetoric as "an empty and verbal art".... | |
 | Keir Elam - 1984 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...matter; ... 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' (1605: 24-5). The inaugurating gesture of Bacon's scientific enterprise, logically, is the... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1986 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...this vanity: for words are but 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. (Ill, 284) Notes 1 Robin Horton, "African Traditional Thought and Modern Science," Africa,... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...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. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the... | |
 | Daniel N. Robinson - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 390
...than they have in the very matters which Luther addressed: Words are but the images of matter. . . . [T]o fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.4 In addition to stultifying reverence for antiquity, there are human inventions that stand... | |
 | Judith H. Anderson - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...when he likened the cultivation of "eloquence and copie [ie, copia] of speech" to Pygmalion's frenzy, "for words are but the images of matter; and ... to...love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." 33 For Bacon at least, words without material warrant have simply become unreal. Characterizing... | |
 | Roy Harris - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...words,' says10 Bacon, 'are but the image 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.' If then a language were dictated, or in any The number is very uncertain. Pott reckons about... | |
 | Markku Peltonen - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 406
...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. (Ill, 284) Rawley, his chaplain and secretary, recorded that Bacon "would often ask if the... | |
 | Denise Albanese - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...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" (3.284). As the portrait of erotic transport makes clear, Pygmalion's desire codes the disruptive... | |
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