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 dramatic works of William Shakspeare - Página 50por William Shakespeare - 1813Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1841 - 912 páginas
...the orders, or to 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...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... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 páginas
...faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt ; Fresh expectation troubled not the land, With any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd...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... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 páginas
...state. Sal. Therefore, to be poasess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before 8, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1842 - 594 páginas
...state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before 8, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 508 páginas
...faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt; Fresh expectation troubled not the land , With any long'd-for change , or better state. Sal. Therefore , to be possess'd...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... | |
| William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - 1843 - 264 páginas
...thousand businesses are brief in hand, And Heaven itself doth frown upon the land. KIM; JOHN, iv.3. To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 418 páginas
...any long'd-for change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard2 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pernb. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 páginas
...adding to the love and admiration of his age, and more than one country. " Therefore to be possessed with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before,...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 páginas
...adding to the love and admiration of his age, and more than one country. " Therefore to be possessed with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before,...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... | |
| John Smith (of Malton.) - 1845 - 456 páginas
...is employed by those who consider the discoveries of man superior to the teachings of nature. " 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.... | |
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