...Evelyn, " not so rich or dazzling-, but scarcely less pleasing, and certainly more philosophical : To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume...ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of Heav'n to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. The...

...feeble verse, and the greater its own riches, the less does it need those of poetry. " To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint...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." But...

...long'd-for change, or better state. Sat. Therefore, to be possess'il with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint...heaven to garnish. Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ; And, in...

...thoughts. 26— v. 11. 165 Superfluous excess. To be possess'd with double pomp, To guard" a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint...the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue r The style of gods, means, an exalted language ; such as we may suppose would be written by beings...

...enough. It should ,be remembered that king John was now crowned for the fourth time. To guard1 a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint...of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous /«scess. Pern. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told...

...title that was rich before, To throw a perfume"on the violet, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow,...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Pem. But that jour royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told ^ And, in the...

...thoughts. 26— v. 11. • 165 Superfluous excess. To be possess'd with double pomp, To guardf a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint...the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue * The style of gods, means, an exalted language ; such as we may suppose would be written by beings...

...that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, Vo smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow,...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. Sal. In this, the antique and well-noted face Of plain old form is much disfigur'd : Aud, like a shifted...

...appropriately than when applied to the coronation :— " To be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." These words are put into the mouth of William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, natural son of * Page 208....

...add to their number, would be nothing short of an attempt to improve perfection. "To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint...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." These...