 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pàgines
...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...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, PHILOSOPHY. Hang up philosophy ! Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince's... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pàgines
...intent must needs seem horrible. Hub. None, but to lose your eyes. PERFECTION ADMITS OF NO ADDITION. To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice,...heaven to garnish*, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. » * * * * In this, the antique and well-noted face Of plain old form is much disfigured: And, like... | |
 | 1824 - 662 pàgines
...whom they ruled, such defences as they have both put forth would never have been needed. " To guard 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." And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pàgines
...To guard a title, that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paiutthe lily, To throw a perfame re fortunately met : Of this discoursewe will hear...and by with ns, These couples shall eternally be kn Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told, And, in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 360 pàgines
...long'd-for change, or better state. pleas'd, Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard 4 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, 5 Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 pàgines
...Evelyn, " not so rich or dazzling, but scarcely less pleasing, and certainly more philosophical : " ' To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of Heav'n to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.' " The subject here seemed to pause, and with... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 370 pàgines
...Evelyn, " not to rich or dazzling, but scarcely less pleasing, and certainly more philosophical : " ' To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of Heav'n to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.' " The subject here seemed to pause, and with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 514 pàgines
...any longed-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,...must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable. Sal. In this, the antique... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 460 pàgines
...- a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on dle violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto...must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told '•''; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable. Sal. In this,... | |
 | Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1827 - 696 pàgines
...added to what was before known and used by the ancients. To improve the orders, is like the attempt "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 eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." SHAKSPEARE.... | |
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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. 
