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
| Shakespeare club Sheffield - 1829 - 190 pages
...is unnecessary, and would be in vain for me to attempt any new encomium ; for he himself says, " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, to add another hue Unto the rainbow ; or with taper light To seek the beauteous... | |
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...state. Stl. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard1 a title that was rich before, Toeild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or odd another hue I'nto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 458 pages
...state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard6 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, and add another hue 1 owei :] ie Pouesses. * closely — ] ie Secretly, privately.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...Therefore, to be posseu'd with double pomp, To guard' a title that was rich before, To .• ¡ I • i 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... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 542 pages
...fresh perfume to the violet. This version by no means improves the original, which is as follows : To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, * To throw a perfume on the violet, &«. King John. A great poet quoting another should be correct; he should also be accurate when he... | |
| 1832 - 206 pages
...as the rudest wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to 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 taper light To seek the beauteous eye... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 pages
...observe, I hope that it is " in perfect keeping" with the Character of the work : — To gild refin'd gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet ! (as our immortal Bard has so beautifully expressed it) Is wasteful and ridiculous. Therefore, Sir,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...perfume to the violet." This version by no means improves the original, which is as follows : — " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...— KING JOHN. A great poet quoting another should be correct : he should also be accurate, when he accuses a Parnassian brother of that dangerous charge... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 364 pages
...to the violet." • This version by no means improves the original, which is as follows : — " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...— KING JOHN. A great poet quoting another should be correct : he should also be accurate, when be accuses a Parnassian brother of that dangerous charge... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard s) a title that was rich before, To m'd me, here I quit him: He knows himself my bed he hath defil'd; ") An To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye... | |
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