 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...I.— AH Apartment in the DUKE'S Palate. Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; Sliaiciata attending. Duke. If music $ - ů kFF. ۱ ; 72 y<Y^ A ; Fڥ ~% { 5 <i i v < + <֤ { Sr vy\+ϷJ < : <), it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - 1823 - 498 pages
...has some exquisite lines upon this flower, where the duke, listening to plaintive music, desires " That strain again ; it had a dying fall : O, it came...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour." We are told, in the notes to Mr. Steevens' Edition of Shakspeare, that the Violet is an emblem of faithfulness... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...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 me excess of it...of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; DO more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, bow quick and fresh art thou... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...tedious as go o'er. MUSIC. Give me some music ; music, moody food Of us that trade in love. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. Mark it, Cesario ; it is old, and plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids... | |
 | 1824 - 596 pages
..."Twelfth Night," he sings in numbers worthy of the immortality to which they are destined. If music he the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that...again; — it had a dying fall ; O, it came o'er my car like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets. &c. Hear him also in " The Merchant... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...our poet in these charming lines imitated his favourite Shakespeare, Twelfth Night at the beginning. That strain again, it had a dying fall ; O, it came...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Thyer. 555. The idea is strongly implied in these lines of Jonson's Vision of Delight, a Masque presented... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...sweet strain of music to the delicious scent of this flower: — Soft Straint of Music. If Music he the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it ;...so die. — 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pages
...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...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. NATURAL AFFECTION ALLIED TO LOVE. O, she, that hath a heart of that fine frame, To pay this debt of... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler - 1825 - 356 pages
...WILL. ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. An Apartment in the Duke'* Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords ; Musicians attending. Duke. If musick be the food of love, play...sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. 0 spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou! That notwithstanding... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 548 pages
...WILL. ACT I. SCENE I. An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attendiny, Duke. IF musick be the food of love, play on, Give...dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south1, That breathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour2. — Enough; no more; 1 The... | |
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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... 
