 | Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - Architecture - 1827 - 696 pages
...added to what was before known and used by the ancients. To improve the orders, is like the attempt "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...boist'rous there, If our vile intent must needs seem horrible. PERFECTION ADMITS OF NO ADDITON. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...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. *****... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 346 pages
...any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. 1 herefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...the poet who first honoured with that name a mere Ajax, a man-killing idiot! — Dryden. MLXXXVII. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Sfiafespeare. MLXXXVIII. The vicious man lives at random, and acts by chance;... | |
 | L. T.. Ventouillac - Best books - 1829 - 598 pages
...to add praise where it has already been so frequently and so justly bestowed, were indeed — " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
....ADDIDIL'ITY, ADDIT'AUEKT, ADDI'TJON, ADDI'TIONAL, n. oia. ADDITIONALLY, ADDI'TIONARY, AD'DITORY. SAL. To guard a title' that was rich before ; To gild refined gold...ice, or add another hue, Unto the rainbow ; or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to gsmish, It wasteful and ridiculous excess. ShaJupeare'i... | |
 | L. T. Ventouillac - Best books - 1829 - 630 pages
...so frequently and so justly bestowed, were indeed — f " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, I To throw a perfume on the violet, ' To smooth the...-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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 458 pages
...any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard6 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, and add another hue 1 owei :] ie Pouesses. * closely — ] ie Secretly, privately. Unto the rainbow,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...Therefore, to be posseu'd with double pomp, To guard' a title that was rich before, To .• ¡ I • i refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,* la wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pen. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as... | |
 | 1832 - 206 pages
...as the rudest wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...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. KINO... | |
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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. 
