 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 Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Page 4531865Full view - About this book
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...may sicken, and so die. That strain again : — it had a <lying fall : O, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...not."— Sliakespear 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 Shakespeare - 1818 - 358 pages
...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, and giving odour Enough ; . no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 608 pages
...appetite may 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 giving odour :— In the same play there is a passage, on the same subject, of very different, but almost equal,... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Lawyers - 1821 - 372 pages
...narrative, and the charms of friendship and affection so delicately flowing through it. 847 " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour," fled as the connexion between the historian and the subject was changed, and the bond between the brothers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pages
...me surfeit." STEEVENS. 1 That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er ray ear like the sweet south, That breathes 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...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, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...exquisitely 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 bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. There are several kinds of violets , but the fragrant (both blue and white) is the earliest, thence... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 pages
...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 breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. 0 spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
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