 | V. David Schwantes - 2007 - 497 Seiten
...troubled not the land With any longed-for change or better state. Salisbury Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To ihniw perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light... | |
 | Janet Brennan Croft, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III - 2007 - 337 Seiten
...of our language are due to his magic pen.... [T]o attempt a panegyric on his genius would only be To gild refined gold, to paint the lily; To throw a perfume on the violet Or with a taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to varnish... [Fishwick 77-78]. This is the... | |
 | Richard Kerr - 2008 - 328 Seiten
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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. 
