 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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...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, PHILOSOPHY. Hang up philosophy... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...applause is paid him, and when every tongue is big with his boundless fame. He himself tells us, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue To seek the beauteous eye of heav'n to garnish, Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light Is wasteful and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...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 oi'heaven to garnish, Is wasteful,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 662 pages
...have been needed. " To guard a title that was rich before, To ill. I refined gold, to paint ttie Illy, 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 auil ridiculous... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1824 - 658 pages
...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 of heaven... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 324 pages
...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... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 556 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...To guard a title, that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paiutthe lily, To throw a perfame re fortunately met : Of this discoursewe will hear more anon. rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 pages
...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...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... | |
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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. 
