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" 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. "
Lessons in Language and Grammar - Page 294
by Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - 1900
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...To guard a title, that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paiutthe lily, To throw a perfame re fortunately met : Of this discoursewe will hear...and by with ns, These couples shall eternally be kn Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told, And, in the...
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The Oriental Herald, Volume 2

1824 - 662 pages
...they have both put forth would never have been needed. " To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...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." And...
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The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pages
...applause is paid him, and when every tongue is big with his boundless fame. He himself tells us, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue To seek the beauteous eye of heav'n to garnish, Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light Is wasteful and...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, Part 1

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...slate. Sal. Therefore, to be posiess'd with double porno, 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 hne Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye oi'heaven to garnish, Is wasteful,...
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The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson and Stevens [sic ...

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...title that was rich before, [ punijt, To ftld refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume en the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue...rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eyeof heaven to garnishV, Is wasteful nnd tidicnlons excess. Pern. But. that your royal pleasure m»?t...
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The Oriental herald and colonial review [ed. by J.S. Buckingham]., Volume 2

James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 662 pages
...have been needed. " To guard a title that was rich before, To ill. I refined gold, to paint ttie Illy, 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 auil ridiculous excess." And...
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Oriental Herald and Colonial Review, Volume 2

James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 658 pages
...they have both, put forth would never have bee» needed. " 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 llit ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven...
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The British Theatre: Or, A Collection of Plays, which are Acted at ..., Volume 8

Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 556 pages
...state. &>/• 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...
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The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron, Volume 7

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 324 pages
...square, Because he had journey'd fifty miles, and found No sign that it was circular any where; " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet," &c. King John. A great poet quoting another should he correct; he should also he accurate, when he...
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The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text ...

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 360 pages
...pleas'd, Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard 4 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...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...
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