 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 - Page 42edited by - 1827Full view - About this book
 | E H. Seymour - 1805 - 504 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1824 - 658 pages
...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... | |
 | Christianity - 1824 - 662 pages
...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 - 662 pages
...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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1826 - 600 pages
...both friend and foe ail further trouble about his character : he has settled that matter for himself ; and it would henceforth be with taper light To seek...attempt to illustrate what he has made so very clear. But, Sir, the argument of Supremacy must, I fear, detain us a little longer than I could wish. Much... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1827 - 532 pages
...boih friend and foe ail further trouble about his character: he has settled that matter for binself; and it would henceforth be ' With taper light To seek...illustrate what he has made so very clear."— Letter I,.f. nasian Creed is not an exposition of any mysteries ; it docs not aim at any thing so absurd.... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1827 - 542 pages
...both friend and foe all further trouble about his character: he has settled that matter for himself; and it would henceforth be 'With taper light To seek...were to attempt to illustrate what he has made so ver;r clear."—Letter I. p. 110. nasian Creed is not an exposition of any mysteries; it does not aim... | |
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