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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. "
The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English poets and on ... - Page 152
by William Hazlitt - 1902
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The beauties of Shakespear: regularly selected from each play ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1752 - 268 pages
...and fufpicious. To gild refined gold, to paint the lilly, To throw a perfume on the violet, To fmooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To feek the beauteous eye of heav'n to garnifh, Is wafteful, and ridiculous excefs. »»»»»»»»»»»*...
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The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1752 - 456 pages
...rich before ; To gild refined gold, tojuint the lilly, To throw a perfume on the violet, To fmooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper- light To feek the beauteous eye of heav'n to garnifh, Is wafleful and ridiculous excefs. Pemb. But that your...
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The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by ...

William Shakespeare - 1771 - 424 pages
...himfelf tells us^. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily. To throw a perfume on the violet, To f moot h the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper- light To fee k the beauteous eye of fieavn to garnijJ), Ii waftcful and ridiculous excefs. vpl. 3. p. 338. "...
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Macbeth. King John

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 480 pages
...To guard a title that was 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 Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. 160...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 476 pages
...aiidfujj>icioK5, To gii'd renned gold, to paint the lily, To thro«1 a perfume on the violet, To fmooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To feck the beauteous eye of heaven to garniih, Is waftcful and ridiculous excels. In this, the antique...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 632 pages
...To guard a title that was 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 Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. ^ Pem,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 412 pages
...To guard' a title that was 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 Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,* Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pem....
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 480 pages
...To guard5 a title that was 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 Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 4 Go closely in with me.] ie secretly, privately. To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 488 pages
...To guard5 a title that was 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 Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 4 Go closely in with me.] ie secretly, privately. * To guard — ] ie to fringe, or lace....
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The Invisible Enemy, Or, The Mines of Wielitska: A Polish ..., Volume 1

Thomas Pike Lathy - 1806 - 328 pages
...as, in the words of our immortal poet— 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 lijht, To seek the beauteous eye of hcav'n to garnish, » Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. . i SHAKESPEIRI,...
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