 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
 | William Stanley Jevons - Philosophy - 1880 - 370 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." (9) All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - Logic - 1880 - 474 pages
...(=copula) to be overeome by persistent effort stimulated by a desire to acquire knowledge" (=predicate). " With taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish ( — iiAjeet) Is (=copula) wasteful and ridiculous excess" (=predicate).—Shakt. The metaphysical... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - Elocution - 1881 - 232 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. — Shakspeare. 2. To them his heart, his love, his griefs were... | |
 | John Ogilvie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 714 pages
...of light. Closed his eyes in endless night. Gray. 2. Any transgression of due limits; extravagance. With taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish. Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. ShaA. 3. Undue indulgence of appetite ; want of restraint in gratifying... | |
 | Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1883 - 698 pages
...the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth 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. (John, iv. 2.) 689. In ostio formosus. (Gracious to showe. — Er.... | |
 | Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 pages
...lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, to add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. — Shakespeare. Perfection, how to attain. To arrive at perfection,... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 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. ffireefc ant &oman $oets anto HOMER, the celebrated Greek Epic... | |
 | John I. Jones - 1884 - 254 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. — SHAKESPEAKE. E2 LESSON 111. — Parse the Connectives as per... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1884 - 346 pages
...regain the blissful seat, etc. — Milton. The following illustrates both points in a comprehensive way: With taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish (:= subject) [Is (= copula) wasteful and ridiculous excess] (=predicate). —Shakespeare. But let us... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - Spiritualism - 1885 - 420 pages
...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 to profane the spirit of infinite goodness universally manifested in Beauty. Blessed is the man... | |
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