 | William F. Buckley Jr. - 2009 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...of Pembroke: Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...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... | |
 | Janet Brennan Croft, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 337
...of our language are due to his magic pen.... [T]o attempt a panegyric on his genius would only be To gild refined gold, to paint the lily; To throw a perfume on the violet Or with a taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to varnish... [Fishwick 77-78]. This is the... | |
 | V. David Schwantes - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 497
...thought. (2) In what play did Shakespeare write, "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice or add another hue unto the rainbow, . . is wasteful and ridiculous excess." a. Coriolanus b, Hamlet c. Othello d. King John e.... | |
 | Richard Kerr - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 328
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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. 
