Varnish and gilding hide many stains.
Varnish and gilding hide many stains.
Idols should not be touched: the gilding comes off on the hands.
Velvet and gilding do not make a throne, nor gold and jewels a sceptre. It is a throne because the most exalted one sits there,and a sceptre because the most mighty one wields it.
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents worn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more In a new and more beautiful edition, Corrected and amended By its Author.
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
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