 | 1834 - 498 pages
...repeating what must be obvious to every one that has read his valuable works. Shakespeare tells us " 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." In... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard3 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 - 1836 - 570 pages
...or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp, 1 Owns. a ie secretly. To guard1 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ; And, in... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1836 - 746 pages
...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...ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of Heav'n to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth trie # $ % w Pern. But that your royal pleasure roust be done, This act is as an ancient talc new told j1 And, in... | |
 | Quatremère de Quincy (M., Antoine-Chrysostome) - 1837 - 466 pages
...more feeble verse, and the greater its own riches, the less does it need those of poetry. " 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." But... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...any long'd-for change, or better state. Sat. Therefore, to be possess'il with double pomp, To guard invention!;. Enter a Servant Sara. Mistress, your...be gone. [Exeunt BIASCA and Servant. Luc. 'Faith, Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ; And, in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 568 pages
...than enough. It should ,be remembered that king John was now crowned for the fourth time. To guard1 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous /«scess. Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 572 pages
...title that was rich before, To throw a perfume"on the violet, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow,...Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pem. But that jour royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ^ And, in the last repeating,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 536 pages
...that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, Vo smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow,...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Sal. In this, the antique and well-noted face Of plain old form is much disfigur'd : Aud, like a shifted... | |
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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. 
