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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. "
Familiar quotations [compiled] by J. Bartlett. Author's ed - Page 52
by Familiar quotations - 1883
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 1

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...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,* la wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pen. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as...
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Gathered Flowers: Chiefly from the Works of the British Poets

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...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...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ...

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...got his wife with child : Dead though she he, she Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told; And, in the...
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The Young Gentleman's Book: Containing a Series of Choice Readings in ...

1834 - 498 pages
...repeating what must be obvious to every one that has read his valuable works. Shakespeare tells us " 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 heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." In...
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Select plays from Shakspeare; adapted for the use of schools and young ...

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard3 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...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...
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Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. Richard II. Henry IV, pt. 1

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...to be possessed with double pomp, 1 Owns. a ie secretly. To guard1 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...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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Tremaine ; Or, The Man of Refinement

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...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth trie # $ % w Pern. But that your royal pleasure roust be done, This act is as an ancient talc new told j1 And, in...
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An Essay on the Nature, the End, and the Means of Imitation in the Fine Arts

Quatremère de Quincy (M., Antoine-Chrysostome) - 1837 - 466 pages
...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 the lily, To throw a perfume...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...
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Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...state. Sat. Therefore, to be possess'il with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To a. Mistress, your father prays you leave your books,...be gone. [Exeunt BIASCA and Servant. Luc. 'Faith, Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ; And, in...
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