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...obvious effect is, to increase the wealth and power of the Church— which is, as Shakespeare says, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold and paint the (orange) lily. * See some very clever Letters to this effect, which appeared last Summer,...

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

...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...rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of Heav'n to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.' " The subject here seemed to pause, and with...

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...stimulate the delights of the festive board, to embellish the triumph of victory. Its province was To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet ; to magnify the greatest actions, add fresh lustre to the most glorious deeds, give sweetness to the honiest...

...external testimony in proof of such excellence, borders on the charge of ridiculous anxiety — it is ' To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet.' " For one hint, as it is given by Johnson, I shall make no apology : ' Addison is now despised by some,...