 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...not the land With any long'd-for change or better state. EARL OF SALISBURY. Therefore, to be possest ` 2 iron? KING JOHN IV. П. 69-118 To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2011 - 356 pages
...SALISBURY Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, 10 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... | |
 | Michael Kurland - Fiction - 2007 - 320 pages
...looking annoyed. " 'Andsome, I was." "Sorry," Moran said. "Handsome, then." FIFTEEN ALL THAT GLISTERS 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 seet{ the beauteous eye... | |
 | William F. Buckley Jr. - Humor - 2009 - 304 pages
...King John? Act IV, Scene 2, Earl of Salisbury in reply to Earl of Pembroke: Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before,...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... | |
 | V. David Schwantes - 2007 - 497 pages
...troubled not the land With any longed-for change or better state. Salisbury Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To ihniw perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light... | |
 | Janet Brennan Croft, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 337 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
