What did Shakespeare mean by gold?
In the play King John by Shakespeare the following line is used:
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
What did Shakespeare mean by “silhoud refined gold”? If you take the word “put a coating of gold on gold”, what does “”use” in context?
Why does the term “Optums and Knowledge” get used in a lot of books?
Now when you compare and contrast analogous structures to the rest of the examples, I mean also an arithmetic of their relationships. What is the best way to gild something that’s already gold, or paint something that’s already brightly-colored, or put perfume on something that smells sweet? To be possess’d with double pomp wasteful and ridiculous excess,” – “what shall I do? Is it too late to try and improve something that’s already great?
The literal meaning was gold plating gold with gold.
GLID verb cover thinly with gold. Depiction lycra is a very fine brush.
I don’t see another meaning. What would he mean by generalizing an idea with examples?
Why do we paint lilies? Some mash-ups of “Gild the lily” are giving us the Idiom. What do you
mean by “Gild the lily”?
