 | William Hansell Fleming - 1901 - Počet stránok 492
...that, to endeavor to improve on Nature, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. It is simply attempting to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet,...taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish. Nature, both in its appearances and processes, is the model of Art. Nothing unnatural is beautiful.... | |
 | 1909 - Počet stránok 1206
...by many as no other than Lord Bacon himself—tells us that it were "wasteful and ridiculous excess" To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw...ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light, To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish. And yet the gold, the lily, the violet,... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1840 - Počet stránok 344
...not more 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...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.... | |
 | 1874 - Počet stránok 564
...¿t7faL.” Odyssey, xx. 369. 11 You shall die last, sir.” B. and F.'s Elder Brother, iv. iii. VI. “ To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet.” King John, Iv. ii. 11. 51 Who when he lived, his breath and beauty set Gloss on the rose, smell to... | |
 | 1911 - Počet stránok 384
...in the extreme; on the other hand for a tyro to offer praise to such an author were superfluous. " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, or add another hue Unto the rainbow.'' were indeed " wasteful and ridiculous excess.'' Dr. Hart's basic... | |
 | John B. Bremner - 1980 - Počet stránok 424
...and ridiculous excess" of John's second coronation. To crown him a second time, says Salisbury, is "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, / To throw...smooth the ice, or add another hue / Unto the rainbow." Go paint the lily, or gild the clouds with sunshine, but don't gild the lily. GLAMOUR A Scottish variant... | |
 | John B. Bremner - 1980 - Počet stránok 424
...and ridiculous excess" of John's second coronation. To crown him a second time, says Salisbury, is "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, / To throw...smooth the ice, or add another hue / Unto the rainbow." Go paint the lily, or gild the clouds with sunshine, but don't gild the lily. GLAMOUR A Scottish variant... | |
 | Deborah T. Curren-Aquino - 1989 - Počet stránok 220
...The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt; Salisbury. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. [Your behavior] Makes sound opinion sick, and truth suspected, For putting on so new a fashion'd robe.... | |
 | Richard D. Bingham, Robert Mier - 1993 - Počet stránok 342
...individual and even group behavior. 21 Rebuilding Versus Dispersal and Suburbanization Shakespeare's words “to gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet” describe overkill, waste of effort, needless work. When economists John Kain and Joseph Persky delivered... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - Počet stránok 1290
...any long'd-for change or better state. EARL OF SALISBURY. Therefore, to be possest with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined...paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, 318 To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous... | |
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To guard a title that was rich before, 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,... 
