 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 - Page 43publié par - 1824Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 396 pages
...perfume on the violet, To smoothe 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, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 pages
...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 the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 pages
...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 the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - 1843 - 264 pages
...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. KINO JOHN, iv. 2. I do think that you might pardon him, And neither Heaven, nor man, grieve at the... | |
 | John Smith (of Malton.) - 1845 - 456 pages
...nature. " 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...to garnish,— Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. " * * SHAKSPEARE'S KINO JOHN. Act 4, Scene 2. 108. Nature existed before art; and it -was shown, when... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...rich before, 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 same might be said of Mr. Moore's seeking... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a 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 and ridiculous excess." The same might be said of Mr. Moore's seeking... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...PERFECTION. 1. 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...light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Ts wasteful and ridiculous excess. SHAKSPEARE. 2. Nature in her productions, slow, aspires By just... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pages
...PERFECTION. 1. 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...light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Ts wasteful and ridiculous excess. SHAKSPEARE. 2. Nature in her productions, slow, aspires By just... | |
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