 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 London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ... - Pàgina 123editat per Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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,...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. Pemb.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pàgines
...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 - 476 pàgines
...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...ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, It wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pem.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 364 pàgines
...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...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. Pem.... | |
 | 1814 - 752 pàgines
...For ye shall find he will outstrip all praise, And maku it halt behind him : — 'twere as well To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous face of Heav'n to garnish. Oh I he 's above all praise : it were... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 772 pàgines
...fome gilt or folemn temple were ; Many great golden pilUrs did uptvar The mafly roof, Sptnfet^. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, ' To throw a perfume on the violet. Sbak. K. John. And the gilded car of day •'•••' L" * • His glowing axle doth alhif In the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 372 pàgines
...long'd-for change, or better state. " Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard 9 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...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. Sal.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pàgines
...remonstrance against the second crowning of the king. " Therefore to be possessed with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before; To gild refined...throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, to add another hue Unto the rainbovy, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heav'n to garnish;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pàgines
...Therefore to be possessed with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before ; To gild refmed gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, to add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heav'n to garnish... | |
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