 | Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1827 - 696 pagini
...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, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pagini
...boist'rous there, If our vile intent must needs seem horrible. PERFECTION ADMITS OF NO ADDITON. 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. *****... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 346 pagini
...Fresh expectation troubled not the land, With any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. 1 herefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pagini
...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...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Sfiafespeare. MLXXXVIII. The vicious man lives at random, and acts... | |
 | L. T.. Ventouillac - 1829 - 598 pagini
...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 pagini
....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...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 pagini
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as... | |
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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. 
