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
| M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 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." — Shakespeare. A Simple Series is a list of particulars expressed... | |
| John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 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. BHAKSPEAJIK. Nrture in her productions, slow, aspires B; just degrees... | |
| James Cornwell - 1870 - 152 Seiten
...lilv, 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. SIIAKSPEAIIE, 15C4 1G1G. RANGER. A LITTLE boat in a cave, And a... | |
| James Cornwell - 1870 - 156 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. SHAKSPEARE, 1564 -IC1 6. RAKGER. A LITTLE boat in a cave, And a... | |
| Joseph Deans - 1871 - 136 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." A man's love is his life, and if there is a life beyond the grave, there must be an abode of woe to... | |
| William Lennie - 1872 - 248 Seiten
...will suffer greatly. The first two ships of the French line were dismasted in a quarter of an hour. With taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Notwithstanding the most heroic efforts, the hopes of the French... | |
| Alexander Reid - 1872 - 174 Seiten
...gather no moss. The rich are apt to be forgetful of the poor. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. With taper light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 2. THE PREDICATE. Exercise 11. Rudiments, p. 27. The queen reigns.... | |
| 1872 - 752 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 yet he has done it to our great delight ; the waste seems added... | |
| Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 Seiten
...lily, To throw a perfume o'er 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. Sliakesjoeare. Good wine needs no bush. SMkespeare. Men speak ill... | |
| Thomas Pope (canon of Castleknock.) - 1874 - 458 Seiten
...Rome ! — contrast the flame of a candle with the effulgent brilliancy of the meridian sun ! " Or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish !" PALM SUNDAY. HE ceremonies commence in St. Peter's at halfpast nine o'clock. The Pope blesses and... | |
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