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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. "
The Dramatic Works: Of Shakespeare, in Six Volumes; with Notes by Joseph ... - Page 327
by William Shakespeare - 1789
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Religious and Moral Sentences Culled from the Works of Shakespeare: Compared ...

William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - 1843 - 264 pages
...thousand businesses are brief in hand, And Heaven itself doth frown upon the land. KIM; JOHN, iv.3. To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined...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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The family Shakespeare [expurgated by T. Bowdler]. in which those words are ...

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...With any long'd-for change, or better state. S'il. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, Tu b@ 5 imooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes original and ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 418 pages
...any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard2 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...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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Shakspere Weighed in an Even Balance

Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 112 pages
...teaching with that of the Bible ; but in so doing, I might possibly incur the suspicion of attempting To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined...paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet: To smooth the ice, or add another hue To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Unto the rainbow,...
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Words on Words: A Dictionary for Writers and Others who Care about Words

John B. Bremner - 1980 - 424 pages
...ridiculous excess" of John's second coronation. To crown him a second time, says Salisbury, is "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." Go paint the lily, or gild the clouds with...
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King John: New Perspectives

Deborah T. Curren-Aquino - 1989 - 220 pages
...ne'er pluck'd off; The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt; Salisbury. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before,...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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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...not the land With any long'd-for change or better state. EARL OF SALISBURY. Therefore, to be possest smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...Kingjohn Life is as tedlous as a twice-told tale. Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. 10305 Kingjohn To London all that life can afford. 5095 Boswell - Life All argument is again smooth the ice. or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye...
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Say It Like Shakespeare: How to Give a Speech Like Hamlet, Persuade Like ...

Thomas Leech - 2001 - 328 pages
...be creative. Use your head; explore the whole body of available options. 216 Don't Gild the Lily 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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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day. Prince Edward— Richard III IILi To be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before,...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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