 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 baptist Magazine - Page 4731866Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...Therefore to be possessed with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before ; To gild refuted gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the...rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heav'n to garnish ; Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." .- ; TWELFTH NIGHT; WHAT YOU WILL. THIS is... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1820 - 596 pages
...articles when in. them consisted all I knew of the lady. Besides, you ha,ve yourself seen her, and •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,... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 600 pages
...articles when in them consisted all I knew of the lady. Besides, you have yourself seen her, and To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet. To smooth the ice, or add another hu e Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 592 pages
...articles when in them consisted all I knew of the lady. Besides, you have yourself seen her, and To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet. To smooth the ice, or add another hu e Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 668 pages
...Sociable Letters, folio, 1664, p. 244. * Conjectures on Original Composition, by Dr. Edward Young. " To guard a title that was rich before, " To gild refined...To throw a perfume on the violet, " To smooth the Lee, or add another hue " Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light " To seek the beauteous eye or heaven... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 232 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," &c. KING JOHN. A great poet quoting another should be correct ; he should also be accurate, when he... | |
 | 1822 - 436 pages
...manners and the ^imes. To dwell upon the memory of Kemble, and for us to praise him, would be " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet ;" nevertheless, we must reserve our remarks upon Mr. Vandenhnff's original and borrowed beauties till... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 504 pages
...any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard 5 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 372 pages
...any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard8 a title that was rich before,. To gild refined gold,...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,... | |
 | Robert Adam - 1823 - 530 pages
...credulity, has well observed, if we believe our own existence, we must believe his. Yes, " To add anotherhue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light, To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." NUMBERS, AND COUNTRIES WHERE FOUND. On this head little can be... | |
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