 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 pages
...TWELFTH-NIGHT: OR, WHAT YOU WILL. ACT I. SCENE I. Tkc Dvkfi Palace. Enter Duke, CURIO, and Lords, Duke. IF muskk be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...die That strain again ;--it had a dying fall : O, it camic o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, . Stealing, and giving... | |
 | George Keate - 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... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...Twelfth Night, relieving his melancholy with music, says : That strain again! it had a dying fall! Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...SCENE I. An Apartment in tke Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. IF musick be the food of love, play on, Give me excess...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pages
...surfeiting, See.] So in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. " And now excess of it will make me " surfeit." Line 4. That strain again; it had a dying fall; O! it came...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 408 pages
...in the Duke's palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords ; Musicians attending. If mupick be the food of lovef play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The...of violets, Stealing and giving odour. — Enough ; 110 more; •Tis not so swctt now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art tlioti... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 410 pages
...SCENE I. An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. If musick be the food of love, play on, Give me excess...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...Coast of Illyria. ACT I. SCENE I. Tite Duke' t Palace. Enter the Duke, Curia, and Lnrds. Duke. "If musick be the food of love, play on, *• Give me...had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the swett south. That breathes upon a bulk of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more... | |
 | 1807 - 474 pages
...the passage is in every one's recollection, I shall make no apology for quoting it here. " If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it;...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... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 440 pages
...[Exeunt, SCENE II. The DUKE'S Palace. Enter the DUKE, CURIO, and LORDS. Soft Music. Duke. If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it;...that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. [Music. That strain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That... | |
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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... 
