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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 works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by ... - Page 336
by William Shakespeare - 1769
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The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations

William Shakespeare - 1999 - 412 pages
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The Chronology of Words and Phrases: A Thousand Years in the History of English

Linda Flavell, Roger Flavell - 1999 - 280 pages
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King John

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 164 pages
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Say It Like Shakespeare: How to Give a Speech Like Hamlet, Persuade Like ...

Thomas Leech - 2001 - 328 pages
...be creative. Use your head; explore the whole body of available options. 216 Don't Gild the Lily 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...
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Boxiana; Or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism, from the Days of the ...

Pierce Egan - 1999 - 603 pages
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day. Prince Edward— Richard III IILi To be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before,...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...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pages
...not the land With any long'd-for change or better state. EARL OF SALISBURY. Therefore, to be possest ` 2 iron? KING JOHN IV. П. 69-118 To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light...
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It Can Be Done: Poems of Inspiration 1921

Joseph Morris, St Clair Adams - 2003 - 268 pages
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Poems Old and New, Reading Guides and Indexes: Junior Classics Part 10, Part 10

William Patten - 2003 - 548 pages
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King John/Henry VIII

William Shakespeare - 2004 - 514 pages
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