 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 344 pàgines
...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,...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 - 1824 - 882 pàgines
...troubled not the land, With any long'd-lor change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be posscss'd e blood j Garnish'd paiutthe lily, To throw a perfame on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pàgines
...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 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 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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1824 - 404 pàgines
...obvious effect is, to increase the wealth and power of the Church— which is, as Shakespeare says, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold and paint the (orange) lily. * See some very clever Letters to this effect, which appeared last Summer,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pàgines
...troubled not the land, With any long'd-for change, or better s'tate. Sal. Therefore, to bepoasess'd In*! to wive, With I,,'/, ho, the wind and the rain,...thrive, Fur the ram it rainvth t-very day. But when I smooth the ice, or add another hoe Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 936 pàgines
...change, or better ш<е. $a¡. Therefore, to be pouesH'd with double pomp, To guard • a title that wu rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice. or add another hue I'nto the rainbow, or with Uper-Iignt To seek the beauteous eye... | |
 | 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 on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye... | |
 | 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 on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye... | |
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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. 
