 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 works of the rt. hon. lord Byron - Page 32by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 480 pages
...state. Sal. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1790 - 598 pages
...(late. Sa/. Therefore, to be polfefs'd with double pomp, 30 To guard « a title that was rich before, To t praflis'd not his gait : And fpeaking thick, which nature made his bl To fmooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 35 To feck the beauteous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1789 - 718 pages
...ftate. Sal, Therefore, to be poflefs'd with double pomp, " To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To fmooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light \« To feek the beauteous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 618 pages
...More guarded than his fellows." STEEVENI. See Mfo/urefor Meafare, Vol. IV. p9 282-3, n. 2. MALONE. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To fmooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To feek the beauteous eye... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...attempt to make any addition. He has juftly obferved, that To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily. To throw a perfume on the violet, To fmooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light " To feek the beauteous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1797 - 592 pages
...ftate. SAL. Therefore, to be poflefs'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To fmooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To feek the beauteous eye... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1797 - 694 pages
...Itate. Sal. Therefore, to be poflefs'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before,5 TogiJd refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To fmooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To feek the beauteous eye... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1798 - 448 pages
...ftate. Sal. Therefore, to be poffefs'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich befoie, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To fmooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To feek the beauteous eye... | |
 | John Moore - 1800 - 478 pages
...when in them cohfifted all I knew of the lady. Befides you have yourfelf feen her, and * • » To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To fmooth the ice, or add another hue ' Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To feek the beauteous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 322 pages
...better ftate. Sal. Therefore to he poflefs'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To fmooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To feek the beauteous eye... | |
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