to chink a wall

Verdigris is lightfast in oil paint, as numerous examples of fifteenth-century paintings show.

[…]the genius of the poet who knows and states, who has lived years of loneliness and failure, who has seen others grow rich, notable, and powerful, and who has remained obscure and unobeyed, with nothing but a vision which has become lightning at last in a supreme moment of inspiration.

abrogators and dispensers against the Lawes of God, but tyrannous importuners and Exactors of theyr owne