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. Massachusetts Quarterly Review - 48 psl.1848Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
| James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 658 psl.
...they have both, put forth would never have bee» needed. " 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 llit ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 324 psl.
...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... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 662 psl.
...have been needed. " To guard a title that was rich before, To ill. I refined gold, to paint ttie Illy, 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... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 556 psl.
...state. &>/• Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp. To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. K. John. Some reasons of this double coronation I have possess'd... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 370 psl.
...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 of Heav'n to garnish, Is wasteful,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1825 - 508 psl.
...better s!sa. Sal. Therefore, to be po*se*>'d with J«e» To guard* a title that was neb before, [p&To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet. To smooth the ice, or add another bat Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven topIs wasteful, and ridiculous... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1825 - 936 psl.
...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 of heave» to garnish, Is wasteful... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 psl.
...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 of Heav'n to garnish, Is wasteful,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1825 - 360 psl.
...refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rain-bow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, 5 Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as... | |
| Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 psl.
...stimulate the delights of the festive board, to embellish the triumph of victory. Its province was To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet ; to magnify the greatest actions, add fresh lustre to the most glorious deeds, give sweetness to the honiest... | |
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