 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.  Works - 330 psl.autoriai: William Shakespeare - 1795Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Elizabeth Inchbald - 1808 - 418 psl.
...expectation troubled not the land With any long'd-for change, or better state. 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 psl.
...pages, I shall not attempt to make any addition. He has justly observed, that " 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... | |
 | John Corry - 1809 - 262 psl.
...characters to pursue the path of integrity ; but in other respects such praises are superfluous. " 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 beautious eye... | |
 | John Smith, George Canning, Robert Percy Smith, John Hookham Frere - 1809 - 176 psl.
...testimony in proof of such excellence, borders on the charge of ridiculous anxiety, — it is " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, " To throw a perfume on the violet." For one hint, as it is given by Johnson, I shall make no apology. " Addison is now despised by some,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 458 psl.
...change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to tie 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, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 534 psl.
...long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp To guard ta 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 beanteous eye... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 psl.
...external testimony in proof of such excellence, borders on the charge of ridiculous anxiety; it is To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet. '* For one hint, as it is given by Johnson, I shall make no apology. ' Addison is now despised by some,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 454 psl.
...long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guards 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 psl.
...compelled to fight Snaps at his master that doth tar him on ||. 323. SUPEREROGATION. To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, * Waller, in his Speech before the Parliament, admirably applied thus the Scriptural Aphorism, " Thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 476 psl.
...iJng'd-for change, or better state. Sal. 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, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye... | |
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