 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 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 ',...so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall 2 : 1 Give me EXCESS of it ; that, SURFEITING, &c.] So, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona : " And now... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 500 pages
...have fed upon this woe already, And now EXCESS of it will make me SURFEIT.] So, in Twelfth Night : " Give me excess of it, that surfeiting, " The appetite may sicken and so die." MALONE. That to close prison he commanded her, With many bitter threats of 'biding there. VAL. No more,... | |
 | 1821 - 772 pages
...with voices which he almost believes he heard before. The cadence of the other, which " comes o'er the ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and gi\ing odour"- — or, perhaps, is more like that magic breath of aerial IUUSK which poets... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...bed. SHAKSPEABE compares an exquisitely sweet strain of music, to the delicious scent of this flower. O ! it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. There are several kinds of violets , but the fragrant (both blue and white) is the earliest, thence... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 404 pages
...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, 9leali«g and giving odour. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 pages
...Duke's palact, 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 eo die. That strain again ;— it had a dying fall : 0. it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That... | |
 | 1865 - 1194 pages
...would have to be multiplied by millions to bring them up to the tension of ordinary air." Thus — " the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour," owes its sweetness to an agent which, though almost infinitely attenuated, nay be more potent as an... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pages
...Palace. Enter DUKE, CUBIC, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. IF musick be the food of love, play oik; Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite...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! That,... | |
 | 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 - 1823 - 984 pages
...DUKE'S Palate. Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; Sliaiciata attending. Duke. If music be the food of love, ; 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... | |
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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... 
