 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 dramatic works of William Shakspeare - Pàgina 50per William Shakespeare - 1813Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1841 - 912 pàgines
...the orders, or to add to their number, would be nothing short of an attempt to improve perfection. "To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined...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." These... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 pàgines
...faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt ; Fresh expectation troubled not the land, With any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 pàgines
...state. Sal. Therefore, to be poasess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before 8, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 594 pàgines
...state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before 8, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...taper-light To seek 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 508 pàgines
...faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt; Fresh expectation troubled not the land , With any long'd-for change , or better state. Sal. Therefore , to be possess'd...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish , Is wasteful , and ridiculous excess. Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - 1843 - 264 pàgines
...thousand businesses are brief in hand, And Heaven itself doth frown upon the land. KIM; JOHN, iv.3. To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of Heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. KINO JOHN, iv. 2. I do think that you might pardon him, And neither... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 418 pàgines
...any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard2 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pernb. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pàgines
...adding to the love and admiration of his age, and more than one country. " Therefore to be possessed with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before,...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pàgines
...adding to the love and admiration of his age, and more than one country. " Therefore to be possessed with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before,...perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hoe Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heav'n to garnish, Is wasteful... | |
 | John Smith (of Malton.) - 1845 - 456 pàgines
...is employed by those who consider the discoveries of man superior to the teachings of nature. " 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.... | |
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