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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... "
Quotations from Shakespeare, a collection of passages selected and arranged ... - Page 43
by William Shakespeare - 1867
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Mnemotechny, Or Art of Memory ...: With a Mnemotechnic Dictionary

Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 pages
...world ; and dear the schoolboy spot We ne'er forget, though there we are forgot. BYRON. 92. 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 south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. — Enough : no more ; 'Tis...
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Mnemotechny, or art of memory, theoretical and practical: with a ...

Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 pages
...world ; and dear the schoolboy spot We ne'er forget, though there we are forgot. BYRON. 92. 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 south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. — Enough : no more ; "Pis...
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The Elements of Reading and Oratory

Henry Mandeville - 1850 - 368 pages
...circumstance, which may be regarded a* making the whole a mixed sentence. SEC. XXXIV. MUSIC AND LOVE. If music be the food of love, play on : Give me excess of it...and so die. That strain again : it had a dying fall : 2 O, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets : 3 Stealing...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 pages
...ACT I. SCENE I. An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords ; Musicians attending. Duke. If music be the food of love, play on ; Give...dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing, and giving odor. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis...
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. TWELFTH NIGHT. ACT I MUSIC. 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 south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. " . i NATURAL AFFECTION ALLIED...
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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 500 pages
...WILL. ACT I. SCENE I. An Apartment in the DUKE'S Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. IF music be the food of love, play on : ' Give...again ; — it had a dying fall : ' O ! it came o'er niy ear like the sweet south,* 1 The sense of dying, as here used, is technically expressed by diminuendo....
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 622 pages
...I. SCENE I. — An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CUBIO, Lords ; Musicians attending. DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give...so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall 1 : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound" That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text ..., Part 47, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 540 pages
...ACT I. SCENE I.—An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, ClTEIO, LOBDS; Musicians attending. Duke. If music be the food of love, play on,— Give...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...
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A Course of Reading for Common Schools and the Lower Classes of Academies ...

Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...Semi-interrogative, with close construction. SEC. LXXXVIII. MUSIC AND LOVE. If music be the food of love, play on : 1 Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite...and so die. That strain again: it had a dying fall: 2 O, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets : 3 Stealing and...
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres

Lawrence Danson - 2000 - 172 pages
...morning-after — and Orsino's line captures that sense of too-muchness as well. Again, in full: If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. Twelfth Night, like Twelfth Night, has its carnival elements, not only the subverting of Malvolio's...
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