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. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays - Page 240by William Hazlitt - 1818 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...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 of heaven to garnish,?... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 344 pages
...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 beauteous eye of heaven to garnish... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 658 pages
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1825 - 936 pages
...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,... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 732 pages
...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,... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 pages
...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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pages
...Therefore, to bepoasess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined I never thrive, Fur the ram it rainvth t-very day. But when I came unto my be or add another hoe Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1825 - 508 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 370 pages
...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, and ridiculous excess.' " The subject here seemed to pause, and with it the speakers; while she who had been chiefly the listener,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 514 pages
...Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard5 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 of heaven to garnish,... | |
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