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. Oriental Herald and Colonial Review - Seite 43herausgegeben von - 1824Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Robert Adam - 1823 - 530 Seiten
...credulity, has well observed, if we believe our own existence, we must believe his. Yes, " To add anotherhue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light, To seek the...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." NUMBERS, AND COUNTRIES WHERE FOUND. On this head little can be said with certainty, unless perhaps... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 504 Seiten
...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. Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told; And, in the... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 662 Seiten
...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...the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful auil ridiculous excess." And never was there an occasion in which this excess would hare been more... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 Seiten
...perfame on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light ur will ; For in the temple, by and by with ns, These couples shall eternally be kn 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 - 1824 - 428 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 Seiten
...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. Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ; And, in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 Seiten
...perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hoe Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light Pern. But that your royal pleasure mast be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ; And, in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 460 Seiten
...perfume on dle 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. Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told '•''; And,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 514 Seiten
...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. Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ; And, in the... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 596 Seiten
...further trouble about his character : he has settled that matter for himself ; and it would henceforth be with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of Heaven to garnish, if any one else were to attempt to illustrate what he has made so very clear. But, Sir, the argument... | |
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