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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. "
The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations ... - Page 273
by William Shakespeare - 1809
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The plays and poems of Shakespeare, according to the improved text ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 396 pages
...rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smoothe the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ; And, in...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry ...

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 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. Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told, And in the...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry ...

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 pages
...rich before 8, 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. Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told, And in the...
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Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the ...

United States. 76th Cong., 3d sess., 1940, United States. Congress - Government publications - 1941 - 174 pages
...adjourned. p Senator Clarfe Of Idaho Mr. CLARK of Idaho. Mr. President— To gild refined gold, to * * * add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light...To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish Is the task appointed to me this day. And — As in a theater, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor...
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King John: New Perspectives

Deborah T. Curren-Aquino - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 220 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. [Your behavior] Makes sound opinion sick, and truth suspected, For putting on so new a fashion'd robe....
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily. To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth iam Shakespeare EARL OF PEMBROKE. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new-told;...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice. or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light inks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having 10306 King John How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Make ill deeds done! 10307 Kingjohn Heaven...
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The Life and Death of King John

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 324 pages
...19).' Their combination, however, may echo Salisbury's celebrated speech : 'To gild refined gold ... or with taper-light | To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish . . .' (4.2.11, 14-15). 2 5. Roland Mushat Frye discovered a peculiar testimony to King John's doctrinal,...
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Say It Like Shakespeare: How to Give a Speech Like Hamlet, Persuade Like ...

Thomas Leech - Business & Economics - 2001 - 328 pages
...Gild the Lily 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. Salisbury, King John. 4, 2 Visual aids and effects can be helpful in communication, but can backfire...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, iron? KING JOHN IV. П. 69-118 To smooth EARL OF PEMBROKE. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new-told;...
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