 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 - Seite 42herausgegeben von - 1827Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | E H. Seymour - 1805 - 504 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 658 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 662 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 1826 - 600 Seiten
...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 - 1827 - 532 Seiten
...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 - 1827 - 542 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1827 - 180 Seiten
...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... | |
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