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... Table-talk; or, Original essays - Seite 225von William Hazlitt - 1824Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1865 - 1194 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 Seiten
...appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : <), it came o'er my ear good cheap, at the dearest chandler's in Europe. I Enough ; no Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou... | |
| Elizabeth Kent - 1823 - 498 Seiten
...listening to plaintive music, desires " 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." We are told, in the notes to Mr. Steevens' Edition of Shakspeare, that the Violet is an emblem of faithfulness... | |
| John Walker - 1823 - 406 Seiten
...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, Stealing and giving odour. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the exclamation in a harsh and... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...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. Mark it, Cesario ; it is old, and plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 428 Seiten
...Shakespeare, Twelfth Night at the beginning. 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. Thyer. 555. The idea is strongly implied in these lines of Jonson's Vision of Delight, a Masque presented... | |
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