 | 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,...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 - 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,...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 - 1823 - 1004 pages
...better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double To guard* a title that was rich before, [pomp 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... | |
 | 1834 - 442 pages
...— to dilute and versify one of the finest dramatic poems that any age has produced, is indeed, " to gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet ;" and we wish for his own sake, that an author who at times exhibits considerable powers, should not... | |
 | Susan Linn De Witt - 1823 - 496 pages
...his eye followed the movements of his child, he thought that to teach her new graces, would only be - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume to the violet." The extreme beauty, too, of which she now ' appeared to be totally thoughtless, early... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...fresh 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 an the violet," &c. A great poet quoting another should be oorrect; he should also be accurate, when... | |
 | 1824
...raise our own feeble voice of praise in addilion to so sublime an encomium as this, would indeed be " 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pages
...just 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 on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue To seek the beauteous eye of heav'n to garnish, Unto the rainbow,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...could bear , That, when the sea was calm, all boats alike Show'd mastership in floating PERFECTION. 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.) - 1824 - 324 pages
...was 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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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. 
