 | British poets - 1824 - 676 psl.
...could bear , That, when the sea was calm, all boats alike Show'd mastership in floating PERFECTION. 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 - 1824 - 518 psl.
...state. .v. / Therefore, to be poraess'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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 psl.
...slate. Sal. Therefore, to be posiess'd with double porno, 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 hne Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 psl.
...s'tate. Sal. Therefore, to bepoasess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gering could I never thrive, Fur the ram it rainvth t-very day. But when I smooth the ice, or add another hoe Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye... | |
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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. 
