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" To guard a title that 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, [s wasteful and... "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and ... - Page 251
by William Shakespeare - 1821
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The British Theatre: Or, A Collection of Plays, which are Acted at ..., Volume 8

Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 556 pages
...land \Viih any long'd-for change, or better state. &>/• Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp. To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined...paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. K. John. Some reasons of this double coronation I have possess'd...
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The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...applause is paid him, and when every tongue is big with his boundless fame. He himself tells us, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue To seek the beauteous eye of heav'n to garnish, Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light Is wasteful and...
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The Oriental herald and colonial review [ed. by J.S. Buckingham]., Volume 2

James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 662 pages
...have been needed. " To guard a title that was rich before, 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 To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful auil ridiculous excess." And...
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The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson and Stevens [sic ...

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...title that was rich 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...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 works of the rt. hon. lord Byron, Volume 7

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 324 pages
...square, Because he had journey'd fifty miles, and found No sign that it was circular any where; " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet," &c. King John. A great poet quoting another should he correct; he should also he accurate, when he...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...land, With any long'd-lor change, or better state. Sal. Therefore, to be posscss'd with double pomp, d paiutthe lily, To throw a perfame on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow,...
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Memoirs of Captain Rock: The Celebrated Irish Chieftain, with Some Account ...

Thomas Moore - Botany Bay (N.S.W.) - 1824 - 404 pages
...obvious effect is, to increase the wealth and power of the Church— which is, as Shakespeare says, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold and paint the (orange) lily. * See some very clever Letters to this effect, which appeared last Summer,...
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The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text ...

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 360 pages
...long'd-for change, or better state. pleas'd, Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard 4 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...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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Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 1

Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 pages
...Evelyn, " not so rich or dazzling, but scarcely less pleasing, and certainly more philosophical : " ' To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...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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Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 1

Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 370 pages
...Evelyn, " not to rich or dazzling, but scarcely less pleasing, and certainly more philosophical : " ' To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...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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