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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. "
The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations ... - Page 273
by William Shakespeare - 1809
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paiutthe lily, To throw a perfame on the violet, To smooth his discoursewe will hear more anon. — Egeus, I...and by with ns, These couples shall eternally be kn 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 Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...was rich before, 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...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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The Plays, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 344 pages
...was rich before, 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 J, » Secretly. f Lacn. » Decorate. Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pern. But that your royal...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...floating PERFECTION. 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, PHILOSOPHY. Hang up philosophy ! Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince's...
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The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson and Stevens [sic ...

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...before, [ punijt, To ftld refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume en the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eyeof heaven to garnishV, Is wasteful nnd tidicnlons excess. Pern. But. that your royal pleasure m»?t...
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The Oriental Herald, Volume 2

1824 - 662 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." And never was there an occasion in which this excess would have been more ridiculous than the present,...
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Oriental Herald and Colonial Review, Volume 2

James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 658 pages
...perfume on the violet, To smooth llit 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." And never was there an occasion in which this excess would have been more ridiculous than the present,...
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The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text ...

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 360 pages
...was rich before, 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 rain-bow, or...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, 5 Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as...
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The Works of Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pages
...refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hoe wind and the ram, With toss-pots sliU Pern. But that your royal pleasure mast be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ; And, in...
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Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 1

Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 732 pages
...philosophical : ' 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 Heav'n to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.' " The subject here seemed to pause, and with...
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