 | Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1827 - 696 pages
...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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 346 pages
...any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. 1 herefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...the poet who first honoured with that name a mere Ajax, a man-killing idiot! — Dryden. MLXXXVII. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Sfiafespeare. MLXXXVIII. The vicious man lives at random, and acts by chance; for he that walks by... | |
 | L. T.. Ventouillac - 1829 - 598 pages
...to add praise where it has already been so frequently and so justly bestowed, were indeed — " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish." In support of this assertion, it will be sufficient to remind the reader, that France could then boast... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
....ADDIDIL'ITY, ADDIT'AUEKT, ADDI'TJON, ADDI'TIONAL, n. oia. ADDITIONALLY, ADDI'TIONARY, AD'DITORY. SAL. 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 gsmish, It wasteful and ridiculous excess. ShaJupeare'i... | |
 | L. T. Ventouillac - 1829 - 630 pages
...so frequently and so justly bestowed, were indeed — f " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, I To throw a perfume on the violet, ' To smooth the...-To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish." In support of this assertion, it will be sufficient to remind the reader, that France could then boast... | |
 | 1830 - 192 pages
...language of the great Bard himself— " To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold or paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet,...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." Yet... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...Therefore, to be posseu'd with double pomp, To guard' a title that was rich before, To .• ¡ I • i refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,* la wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pen. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as... | |
 | 1832 - 206 pages
...as the rudest wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale. 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. KINO... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...any longed-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard s) himself, Though yet he never harm'd me, here I quit...got his wife with child : Dead though she he, she Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told; And, in the... | |
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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. 
