 | John Ray - 1717 - 434 páginas
...to the ftudy of thefe, what is it but Pygmalion s Frenzy, to fall in Love with a Pi&ure or Image c1 As for Oratory, which is the beft skill about Words, that hath by fome wife Men been efteenVd, but a voluntary Art, like to Cookery, which fpoils wholefome Meats, and helps unwholefome,... | |
 | James Robert Page - 1863 - 198 páginas
...great employment. \Vords being but the images of matter, to be wholly given up to the study of these, what is it but Pygmalion's frenzy, to fall in love with a picture or image ?" Bishop Colenso, we are sorry to say, does indeed labour under this Pygmalion disease ; for, instead... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...being but the images of matter, to be wholly given up to the study of these, what is it but Pygmalion s Honour of Sí Cecilias Day, 1697. best skill about words, that hath by some wise men been esteemed but a voluptuary art, like to cookery,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 páginas
...great employment. Words being but the images of matter, to be wholly given np to th'e study of these, what is it but Pygmalion's frenzy to fall in love with a piclnf j or image. As for oratory, which is the best skill about words, that hath by some v\ise men... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 440 páginas
...great employment. Words being but the images of matter, to be wholly given up to the study of these, what is it but Pygmalion's frenzy to fall in love...with a picture or image. As for oratory, which is the best skill about words, that hath by some wise men been esteemed but a voluptuary art, like to cookery,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 páginas
...great employment. Words being but the images of matter, to be wholly given up to the study of these, what is it but Pygmalion's frenzy to fall in love...with a picture or image. As for oratory, which is the best skill about words, that hath by some wise men been esteemed but a voluptuary art, like to cookery,... | |
 | Susan Scott Parrish - 2012 - 344 páginas
...Wisdom of God: "Words being but the Images of Matter, to be wholly given up to the study of these, what is it but Pygmalion's Frenzy, to fall in Love with a Picture or Image?" If words were but the images of matter, Royal Society writers strove to make those images act as if... | |
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... odd humours of pride, and affectation, and curiosity, as will render him unfit for any great employment. Words being but the images of matter, to be wholly given up to the study of these, what is it but Pygmalion's frenzy to fall in love with a picture... 