 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 pages
...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, and ridiculous excess.' " The subject here seemed to pause, and with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 508 pages
...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 exc«s. [sA. Pern. But that your royal pleasure atft b done, This act... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 514 pages
...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...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ; And, in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 460 pages
...was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on dle violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told '•''; And,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 844 pages
...in with me ; Much danger do I undergo for thee. [Kxeunt. To smooth the ice, or add another hue I'nto »aw afar otf in the orchar Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told; And, in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 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 heaven to garnish,* Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. ***** In this, the antique and well noted-face, . Of plain old form is much disfigured: And, like a... | |
 | Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - Architecture - 1827 - 696 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 heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." SHAKSPEARE. In fact, my dear sirs, architecture no more requires a new order than painting demands... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 346 pages
...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...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ; And, in the... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...Dryden. MLXXXVII. 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...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Sfiafespeare. MLXXXVIII. The vicious man lives at random, and acts by chance; for he that walks by... | |
 | L. T.. Ventouillac - Best books - 1829 - 598 pages
...were indeed — " 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." In support of this assertion, it will be sufficient to remind the reader, that France could then boast... | |
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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. 
