 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...  The Works of Shakespeare - Page 97by William Shakespeare - 1752Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...play on, Give ше excees of it ; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and во 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, Mealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Botany - 1829 - 398 pages
...vale. Shakspeare compares the soft strains of plaintive music to the perfume of Violets — 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. Twelfth Night. In the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...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, and giving odour. — Enough ; nc more... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...play on; Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — That strain M MvM N G G = sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough; no more;... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 404 pages
...Paradise Lost, bv || Ibid. its dying fall, to the sweet south breathing on a bank of violets. 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. Twetfth Night. The elysian... | |
 | John Auldjo - Greece - 1835 - 300 pages
...descriptive imagery of Shakspeare appear, where he makes one of his characters exclaim : — " 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 ! " After following the... | |
 | Science - 1836 - 744 pages
...recalled by an act of memory, — but as if present and incarnate in the music; no • " 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." ta Whatsoever is harmonically... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 368 pages
...recalled by an act of memory, — but as if present and incarnate in the music; no * " 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." -f- " AVhatsoever is... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
..." Twelfth Night," is the comparison of soft music to the breath of wind upon the Violet ! That song 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. The Violets from which... | |
 | 1837 - 574 pages
...from his works, but rather to treat my readers with a feast of melody,— Of music,— " 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;"— a horse-laugh—... | |
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