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" If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing... "
Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack - Page 4
1832
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The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1767 - 488 pages
...begins with a fine reflection that admirably marks its foothing properties, t\ tC- i -; That ftrain again ; — It had a dying fall. Oh, it came o'er my ear like the fweet South, a 3 That n^'JcUj^i rn v"i • rt J1/1 « --"I j ,pteahng and giving odour i ' This fimilitiide...
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Twelfth night. Winter's tale

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 pages
...LXXXVII. A NNOTJT1ONS UPON TWELFTH NIGHT. ACT I. Unt 4. THAT strain again ; it had a dying fall: 0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes...upon a bank of violets. Stealing, and giving odour. ] Among the beauties of this eharming similitude, its exaft propriety is not the least. For, as a south...
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Essays, Philosophical, Historical, and Literary, Volume 1

William Belsham - Great Britain - 1789 - 482 pages
...was ifefcribing, in thefe charming lines, the very effect which they are made to produce. That drain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear like the Iweet Couth, That That breathes upon a bank of violets, Steali ng, and giving odour- . Twelfth Night....
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The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 9

Books and bookselling - 1789 - 376 pages
...was defctibing, in thefe charming lines, the very efFeft which they are made to produce. That ftrain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear, like the fweet fouth, That That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Twelfth Night. But...
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Sketches from Nature: Taken, and Coloured, in a Journey to Margate ..., Volume 1

George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...from association.* Shakspeare says of soft melody : " That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : 0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." And Milton, in one of his early poems, says : — * Alison " On Taste," pp. 152, 174. " And ever against...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...of voice : thus the Duke, in Shakspeare's Twelfth Night, relieving his melancholy with music, says : That strain again! it had a dying fall! Oh, it came...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the exclamation in a harsh and...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pages
..." And now excess of it will make me " surfeit." Line 4. That strain again; it had a dying fall; O! it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour ] Amongst the beauties of this charming similitude, its exact propriety is not the least. For, as a...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again; — it had a dying fall: O, it caifle o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon...a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour.— Enough ; no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art...
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Mooriana: or, Selections from the works of J. Moore, illustr. by ..., Volume 2

John Moore - 1803 - 320 pages
...describe, but which Shakespeare expressed thus: " It comes over the heart as soft music does over the ear ; • Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets. It is most fortunate for men to have hearts so framed that they derive pleasure from such recollections....
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Mooriana: Or, Selections from the Moral, Philosophical, and ..., Volume 2

John Moore - Scottish literature - 1803 - 308 pages
...describe, but which Shakespeare expressed thus : " It comes over the heart as soft music does over the ear ; Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets. It is most fortunate for men to have hearts so framed that they derive pleasure from such recollections....
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