 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 Language of Flowers - Page 37edited by - 1835 - 326 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...as Man can thofe mean Arts controul: / If Mufick be the Food of Love, play on : That Strain again : It had a dying Fall : Oh ! It came o'er my Ear like a fweet Sound, That breaths upon a Bank of Violets, Stealing and giving Odour. Shak. Twelfth Niskt... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1733 - 600 pages
..."begins wi$ a fine Reflexion that admirably marks its footK'• n mg Properties. That Strain again; — It had a dying Fall. Oh, it came o'er my Ear like tkejweet fju That breathes upon a Bank of Violets, r .. j • • f\ i • «<>•••• *" Stealing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1767 - 488 pages
...a fine reflection that admirably marks its foothing properties, t\ tC- i -; That ftrain again ; — It had a dying fall. Oh, it came o'er my ear like the fweet South, a 3 That n^'JcUj^i rn v"i • rt J1/1 « --"I j ,pteahng and giving odour i ' This fimilitiide... | |
 | William Combe - 1781 - 54 pages
...the next opportunity compleats My black difhonour. SOUTHERN. MR. LINLEY. Play on That ftrain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh! it came o'er my ear like -a fweet found, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odours. SHAKESP. Miss LINLEY.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 pages
...LXXXVII. A NNOTJT1ONS UPON TWELFTH NIGHT. ACT I. Unt 4. THAT strain again ; it had a dying fall: 0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes...upon a bank of violets. Stealing, and giving odour. ] Among the beauties of this eharming similitude, its exaft propriety is not the least. For, as a south... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1789 - 376 pages
...defctibing, in thefe charming lines, the very efFeft which they are made to produce. That ftrain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear, like the fweet fouth, That That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Twelfth Night. But... | |
 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1789 - 482 pages
...ifefcribing, in thefe charming lines, the very effect which they are made to produce. That drain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear like the Iweet Couth, That That breathes upon a bank of violets, Steali ng, and giving odour- . Twelfth Night.... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...from association.* Shakspeare says of soft melody : " That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : 0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." And Milton, in one of his early poems, says : — * Alison " On Taste," pp. 152, 174. " And ever against... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...fine passage is undoubtedly taken from asfine a one in Shakspeare's Twelfth Night, at the beginning: - like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. But much improved (as Dr. Greenwood remarks) by the addition of that beautiful metaphor, included in... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...Duke, in Shakspeare's Twelfth Night, relieving his melancholy with music, says : That strain again! it had a dying fall! Oh, it came o'er my ear like...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the exclamation in a harsh and... | |
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