 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.  Annual Report of the Department of Education - Page 69by New Brunswick. Board of Education, New Brunswick. Department of Education - 1893Full view - About this book
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...taper-light •* Go closely in luith me.] ie secretly, privately. * To guard — ] ie to fringe, or lace. 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 an ancient tale new told ; And, in the... | |
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...it's Mother's Milk," which the great Lord Mansfield emphatically quoted on the perversion of Law. t To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow,...Heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. 324. TRUTH AN ENEMY TO DISGUISE. Disfiguring the' antique well noted face Ol Honesty by an affected... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 454 pages
...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. Pemb. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ; And, in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 364 pages
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 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1815 - 588 pages
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 | Alicia M'Gennis - 1817 - 806 pages
...' To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfums on the violet, to smooth the ice, and add another hue unto the rainbow, or, with taper light,...heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess." " Yet truth shall guide the pencil, nor hide a failing from the critic's eye." THE slight sketch given... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 372 pages
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 | John Moore - 1820 - 600 pages
...perfume on the violet. To smooth the ice, or add another hu e Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.* I therefore proceed to what will interest you more. Though our acquaintance has not been long, yet... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 592 pages
...perfume on the violet. To smooth the ice, or add another hu e Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.* I therefore proceed to what will interest you more. Though our acquaintance has not been long, yet... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1820 - 596 pages
...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.* I therefore proceed to what will interest you more. Though our acquaintance has not been long, yet... | |
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