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" DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. 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... "
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things : in Two Volumes - Page 270
by William Hazlitt - 1826 - 912 pages
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The Language of Flowers

Frederic Shoberl - 1835 - 406 pages
...perfume of Violets : — That strain again I — 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. Twelfth Night. It has a scent as though Love for its dower Had on it all his odorous arrows tost ;...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...know not. " Shakspeare alone could describe the effect of his own poetry : " O, It cane o'er my ear and husbandry : But come thy ways, we'll go along? together ; And ere we have thy youth "What we so much admire here is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been so generally...
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The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural ..., Volume 3

Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 368 pages
...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 harmonically composed, delights in harmony : for even that vulgar and tavern music,...
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The Romance of Nature, Or, The Flower-seasons Illustrated

Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 pages
...breath of wind upon the Violet ! That song again — it had a dying fall. О ! 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 the illustrative drawing was made, were the late-flowering variety, the leaves...
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The Violet

1837 - 246 pages
...; in describing some delicious music that " had a dying fall," he says, " Oh ! it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets; Stealing and giving odour," Do you understand those lines exactly, Lauretta? LAURETTA — Oh! yes, dear aunt. The south wind, which...
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The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature ..., Volumes 3-4

1836 - 744 pages
...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 composed, delights in harmony : for even that vulgar and tavern music,...
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The Romance of Nature, Or, The Flower-seasons Illustrated

Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 pages
...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 the illustrative drawing was made, were the late flowering variety, the leaves...
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An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at ...

John Quincy Adams - 1837 - 76 pages
...spicy gales of Araby the blest, your Constitution, with WASHINGTON at its head, " Came o'er our ears like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." And what, under that Constitution, still the supreme law of the land, is the condition of your country...
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The Spas of Germany, Volume 1

Augustus Bozzi Granville - 1837 - 514 pages
...Gastein. To one who, from his birth, has loved music as the soother of grief, and on whose ear it comes " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour,'' Saltzburg recalled the name of one of the master spirits of that enchanting art, who left an imperishable...
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A guide along the Danube: from Vienna to Constatinople, Smyrna, Athens, the ...

R. T. Claridge - 1837 - 268 pages
...the kind to be seen. The " concord of sweet sounds," too, is now often heard, " Coming o'er the ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." It was formerly the custom, when any great personage received a visit, to have presented to him a pipe...
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