 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1836 - 746 pages
...Evelyn, " not so rich or dazzling-, but scarcely less pleasing, and certainly more philosophical : 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 Heav'n to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. The... | |
 | Quatremère de Quincy (M., Antoine-Chrysostome) - Aesthetics - 1837 - 466 pages
...feeble verse, and the greater its own riches, the less does it need those of poetry. " To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint...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." But... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...long'd-for change, or better state. Sat. Therefore, to be possess'il with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint...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 - 1838 - 484 pages
...thoughts. 26— v. 11. 165 Superfluous excess. To be possess'd with double pomp, To guard" a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint...the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue r The style of gods, means, an exalted language ; such as we may suppose would be written by beings... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 568 pages
...enough. It should ,be remembered that king John was now crowned for the fourth time. To guard1 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint...of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous /«scess. Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 572 pages
...title that was rich before, To throw a perfume"on the violet, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow,...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pem. But that jour royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ^ And, in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...thoughts. 26— v. 11. • 165 Superfluous excess. To be possess'd with double pomp, To guardf a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint...the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue * The style of gods, means, an exalted language ; such as we may suppose would be written by beings... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 536 pages
...that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, Vo smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow,...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Sal. In this, the antique and well-noted face Of plain old form is much disfigur'd : Aud, like a shifted... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - Historical drama, English - 1840 - 342 pages
...appropriately than when applied to the coronation :— " To be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." These words are put into the mouth of William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, natural son of * Page 208.... | |
 | Meteorology - 1841 - 912 pages
...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 gold, to paint...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... | |
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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. 
