 To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.  The Rosary Magazine - Page 4931907Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pages
...s'tate. Sal. Therefore, to bepoasess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hoe Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 370 pages
...Evelyn, " not to rich or dazzling, but scarcely less pleasing, and certainly more philosophical : " ' To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...perfume to the violet.» This version by no means improves the original, which is as follows : « To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet,- etc. King John. A great poet qnoting another should be correct; he should also be accurate, when he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 360 pages
...the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rain-bow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, 5 Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as... | |
 | 1826 - 508 pages
...state. Sal. (R.) Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. K. John. Some reasons of this double coronation I have possess'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 514 pages
...state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard5 a title that was rich before, . To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 460 pages
...state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard - a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on dle violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the... | |
 | Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1827 - 696 pages
...added to what was before known and used by the ancients. To improve the orders, is like the attempt "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,* Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. ***** In this, the antique and well noted-face, . Of plain old form is much disfigured: And, like a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 346 pages
...state. Sal. 1 herefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye... | |
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