| Edward Bysshe - 1710 - 620 pages
...he a Soul, {As much as Man can thofe mean Arts controul: / If Mufick be the Food of Love, play on : That Strain again : It had a dying Fall : Oh ! It came o'er my Ear like a fweet Sound, That breaths upon a Bank of Violets, Stealing and giving Odour. Shak. Twelfth Niskt... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1733 - 600 pages
...Twelfth-Night, particularly, "begins wi$ a fine Reflexion that admirably marks its footK'• n mg Properties. That Strain again; — It had a dying Fall. Oh, it came o'er my Ear like tkejweet fju That breathes upon a Bank of Violets, r .. j • • f\ i • «<>•••• *" Stealing... | |
| 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... | |
| William Combe - 1781 - 54 pages
...whore, And the next opportunity compleats My black difhonour. SOUTHERN. MR. LINLEY. Play on That ftrain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh! it came o'er my ear like -a fweet found, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odours. SHAKESP. Miss LINLEY.... | |
| 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... | |
| William Belsham - 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.... | |
| John Walker - 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 o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. While the contemptuous... | |
| John Black - 1806 - 260 pages
...tuild pathetic sweetness, at the natural and simple melody of many of our Scotish songs. That ftrain again, it had a dying fall ; Oh ! it came o'er my ear like the fweet fouth, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. ( f) I deliver this... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 440 pages
...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 breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. [Music. Enough — no... | |
| 1843 - 832 pages
...in softest accents of Cockaigne, the superlative claim of choral shows in Exeter Hall— " That roar again, it had a dying fall. Oh ! it came o'er my ear like the rnde north, That lmr.su upon a hank of violets." Bowring and Hume did, certes, pull together once in... | |
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