 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.  Don Juan: Cantos III, IV, and V. - Strana 218autor/autoři: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 218 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | John Moore - 1820 - 600 str.
...articles when in them consisted all I knew of the lady. Besides, you have yourself seen her, and To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet. To smooth the ice, or add another hu e Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1820 - 596 str.
...articles when in. them consisted all I knew of the lady. Besides, you ha,ve yourself seen her, and •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... | |
 | 1822 - 436 str.
...manners and the ^imes. To dwell upon the memory of Kemble, and for us to praise him, would be " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet ;" nevertheless, we must reserve our remarks upon Mr. Vandenhnff's original and borrowed beauties till... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 str.
...of Burns, Mr. C. quotes Shakspeare thus, — " To gild refined gold, to paint the rose, Or add/res * perfume to the violet." This version by no means improves...— " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To tkroui n perfume on the violet," &c. KINS JOHN. A great poet quoting another should be correct ; he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 372 str.
...state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard8 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... | |
 | 1834 - 442 str.
...— to dilute and versify one of the finest dramatic poems that any age has produced, is indeed, " to gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet ;" and we wish for his own sake, that an author who at times exhibits considerable powers, should not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 504 str.
...state. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard 5 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 324 str.
...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...&c. King John. A great poet quoting another should he correct; he should also he accurate, when he accuses a Pa.-nassfon hrother of that dangerous charge... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 556 str.
...state. &>/• Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp. To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to 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... | |
 | 1824 - 662 str.
...they have both put forth would never have been needed. " 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... | |
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