 | John G. Nachbar, Kevin Lausé - Popular culture - 1992 - 524 pages
...some of her conclusions, but a careful reading might also get you thinking and discussing. If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it,...so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O' that it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 220 pages
...marinai, membri del seguito Music. Enter Orsino Duke oflttyria, Curio, and other II lordi ORSINO If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it,...dying fall. O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Enough, no more! Tis not so... | |
 | Henry James - Drama - 1993 - 228 pages
...98) 'dying fall' a lingering cadence; a reference to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, 1,1,1-4: If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it,...so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall... 3 (p. 98) spoil plundered treasure 4 (p. 98)Afrr Siddons Sarah Siddons (1755-1831), an English tragedienne... | |
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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 sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing... 
