 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 Pamphleteer - 49. oldal1826Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | E H. Seymour - 1805 - 504 oldal
...have countenance in the modern colloquial use of beat for beaten, eat for eaten. SCENE II. 470. " Or with taper light " To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish." Akenside had this passage before him when he wrote, " Who would not prefer the sun's broad light "... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 oldal
...emphatically quoted on the perversion of Law. t 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. 324. TRUTH AN ENEMY TO DISGUISE. Disfiguring the' antique well... | |
 | Alicia M'Gennis - 1817 - 806 oldal
...lily, to throw a perfums on the violet, to smooth the ice, and add another hue unto the rainbow, or, with taper light, to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess." " Yet truth shall guide the pencil, nor hide a failing from the... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 662 oldal
...Illy, 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 auil ridiculous excess." And never was there an occasion in which this excess would hare... | |
 | 1824 - 662 oldal
...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." And never was there an occasion in which this excess would have... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 658 oldal
...lily, To throw a 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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1827 - 542 oldal
...friend and foe all further trouble about his character : he has settled that matter for him* self; and it would henceforth be « With taper light To...to illustrate what he has made so very clear."— Letter I. p. 1 10. nasian Creed is not an exposition of any mysteries ; it does not aim at any thing... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1827 - 180 oldal
...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 attempt to illustrate what he has " made so very clear."—Letter 1. p. 110. 90 You say, " As to the Athanasian Creed being ' a human exposition of... | |
 | Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1827 - 696 oldal
...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." SHAKSPEARE. In fact, my dear sirs, architecture no more requires... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 oldal
...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. # # * # V In this, the antique and well noted-face, Of plain old... | |
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