 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.  Shakspere Weighed in an Even Balance - Seite 85von Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 86 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Smith, George Canning, Robert Percy Smith, John Hookham Frere - 1809 - 176 Seiten
...testimony in proof of such excellence, borders on the charge of ridiculous anxiety, — it is " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, " To throw a perfume on the violet." For one hint, as it is given by Johnson, I shall make no apology. " Addison is now despised by some,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 458 Seiten
...land, With anv long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to tie possess'd with double pomp, To guard* a title that was rich before, To gild refined...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,... | |
 | 1809 - 420 Seiten
...the two fat ones. We wish not to satiate the public with quadrupled reviews. READING AND SPEAKING. " To guard a title that -was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throTc a perfume an the violet, ' To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbo-ai ; or -arith... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 544 Seiten
...any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard5 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light •* Go closely in luith me.] ie secretly, privately. * To guard... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 534 Seiten
...any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp To guard ta title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...the violet, 'To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beanteous eye of heaven to garnish J, Js wasteful,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 Seiten
...external testimony in proof of such excellence, borders on the charge of ridiculous anxiety; it is To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet. '* For one hint, as it is given by Johnson, I shall make no apology. ' Addison is now despised by some,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 454 Seiten
...any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guards a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 Seiten
...A Dog that is compelled to fight Snaps at his master that doth tar him on ||. 323. SUPEREROGATION. To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined...paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, * Waller, in his Speech before the Parliament, admirably applied thus the Scriptural Aphorism, " Thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 364 Seiten
...land, With any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 476 Seiten
...land, With any iJng'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined...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, It wasteful,... | |
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