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
| 1830 - 192 Seiten
...rich before, To gild refined gold or 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." Yet by others it has been thought that many of the Poet's commentators have shed new lustre on his... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 458 Seiten
...smooth the ice, and add another hue 1 owei :] ie Pouesses. * closely — ] ie Secretly, privately. Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful ajid ridiculous excess. Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale... | |
| 1835 - 472 Seiten
...life, is to come nearrst to a resemblance of the great original; and to attempt to go beyond it, is • with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of Heaven to garnish. Jonir MARSHALL was- born at a place called Germantown, in Fauquier county, Virginia, on the 24th of... | |
| 1832 - 206 Seiten
...the vale. 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. KINO JOSN. D2 29 YE Violets, that first appear, By your purple mantles known, Like proud virgins of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 Seiten
...perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light relieve her Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told; And, in the... | |
| 1834 - 498 Seiten
...tells us " 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." In infancy Richardson was sent to London, and spent his whole life in the metropolis and its environs.... | |
| John Minter Morgan - 1834 - 460 Seiten
...gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume o'er the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another line Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish'?" " LadyM ," said the literary man, turningto me, " is a disciple of yours ; she would restrain the flights... | |
| Sir David Erskine - 1836 - 1142 Seiten
...to paint the lilly, To throw a perfume on the violet, " To smooth I ha ice, or add another hue Unlo the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous...Heaven to garnish is wasteful and ridiculous excess. SlIAKESFBiRE. BY CAM. D. ERSKINE, YORK RANGERS, FAS tS>. NMA OF SCOT. AKD BORDER SOCIETY, En. PRINTED... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1836 - 780 Seiten
...philosophical : 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 Heav'n to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. The subject here seemed to pause, and with it... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 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... | |
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