 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 eye of heav'n to garnish ; Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.  Strathbogie; or, The recluse of Glenmorris - Seite 95von Alicia M'Gennis - 1817 - 1259 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Corry - 1809 - 262 Seiten
..." 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 beautious eye of heav'n to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.... | |
 | 1810 - 590 Seiten
...positive sl But this is a topic on which we need not dwell. T1^*^ the praises of Newton is indeed \ ." To add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye ot heav'n to The observations on the comet of 1 80", by given in the volume before us, extend from... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...anpicioui. To gild refined gold, to pint 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 togarniib, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. In this the antique and well-noted face Of plain old... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 Seiten
...before ; To gild refmed 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 eye of heav'n to garnish ; Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." TWELFTH NIGHT ; WHAT YOU WILL. THIS is justly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 552 Seiten
...; 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 eye of heav'n to gutnish , Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL. THIS is justly... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 662 Seiten
...To ill. I refined gold, to paint ttie Illy, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light...the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful auil ridiculous excess." And never was there an occasion in which this excess would hare been more... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 596 Seiten
...further trouble about his character : he has settled that matter for himself ; and it would henceforth be with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of Heaven to garnish, if any one else were to attempt to illustrate what he has made so very clear. But, Sir, the argument... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 Seiten
...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,* l3 wasteful, and ridiculous excess. ***** In this, the antique and well noted-face, Of plain old form... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1827 - 542 Seiten
...trouble about his character : he has settled that matter for him* self; and it would henceforth be « With taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,' if any one else were to attempt to illustrate what he has made so very clear."— Letter I. p. 1 10.... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1827 - 180 Seiten
...about his character : " he has settled that matter for himself; and k would hence" forth be t - , ' With taper light ' To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish/ " if any one else were to attempt to illustrate what he has " made so very clear."—Letter 1. p. 110.... | |
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