 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 358 pages
...Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords ; Musicians attending. Duke. If musick be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The...bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour Enough ; . no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou... | |
 | Mrs. Ross - 1818 - 526 pages
...I must give my assistance, or it will never do. My dear Miss Cambell, let us have, if you please, ' That strain again, it had a dying fall ; ' O it came o'er my ear, like the sweet SOU& .* ' That breathes upon a bank of violets, ' Stealing' and giving odour,* You cannot give me '... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...know not." — Shakspeare alone could describe the effect of his own poetry. " Oh, it came o'er the ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." What we so much admire here, is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been generally quoted,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 552 pages
...not." — Shakespear alone could describe the effect of his own poetry. " Oh, it came o'er the ear Kke the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." What we so much admire here is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been generally quoted,... | |
 | 1829 - 612 pages
...surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — That strain ngaia ; it had a dying fall ; Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south. That breathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.' But I suppose you will be coming to me before the next... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...Duke's palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords ; Musicians attending. Duke. If musick be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting,...had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the »weet south, • That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no... | |
 | 1819 - 188 pages
...Shakespenre compares an exquisitejy sweet strain of music, to the delicious scent of this flower — O! it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a '<.,i>k of vfole'i, Stealing and giving odour. There are several kinds of violet ; hut the fragrant... | |
 | 1820 - 608 pages
...of his plays ; for instance, in Orsino's speech in the Twelfth Night, If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The...sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying tall ; 0 it came o'er my ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...the DUEE'S Palace. Enter DUEE, CURIo, LoRDS; Musicians attending. Duke. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting,...of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou<... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pages
...&c.] So, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona : " And now excess of it will make me surfeit" STEEVENS. 1 That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it...upon a bank of violets, STEALING, and giving odour.] Milton, in his Paradise Lost, b. iv. has very successfully introduced the same image : " now gentle... | |
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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 south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing... 
