 | 1821 - 398 lapas
...into truth, but will despise those delicacies and aifectations as capable of no divineness. Indeed it seems to me, that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good...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 Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 lapas
...into truth, but will despise those delicacies and affectations as capable of no divineness. Indeed it seems to me, that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good...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,... | |
 | 1821 - 400 lapas
...into truth, but will despise those delicacies and affectations as capable of no divineness. Indeed it seems to me, that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good...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 Southern - 1821 - 398 lapas
...into truth, but will despise those delicacies and affectations as capable of no divineness. Indeed it seems to me, that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good...love with them is all one, as to fall in love with a pict\ire. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 lapas
...example of late times, yet it hath been, and will be secundum majus et minu-s in all time. And how it is possible but this should have an operation to discredit...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 - 1825 - 432 lapas
...seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words art but the images of matter ; and except they have life...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 - 1834 - 784 lapas
...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 - 1826 - 626 lapas
...should have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see learned mens works like the first letter of a patent, or limned...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, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 lapas
...example of late times, yet it hath been, and will be " secundum majus et " minus" in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation...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, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 lapas
...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... | |
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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. 
