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 sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing... Every Day with Shakespeare - Seite 29von William Shakespeare - 1912 - 118 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Auldjo - 1835 - 300 Seiten
...rich descriptive imagery of Shakspeare appear, where he makes one of his characters exclaim : — " 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 ! " After following the Prince... | |
| 1871 - 340 Seiten
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| 1836 - 744 Seiten
...as though recalled by an act of memory, — but as if present and incarnate in the music; no • " 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." ta Whatsoever is harmonically... | |
| Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 368 Seiten
...not as though recalled by an act of memory, — but as if present and incarnate in the music; no * " 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." -f- " AVhatsoever is harmonically... | |
| Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 Seiten
..." Twelfth Night," is the comparison of soft music to the breath of wind upon the Violet ! That song 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. The Violets from which the illustrative... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 Seiten
...excess of it ; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it hath iam Shakespeare south,1 That breathes upon a hunk of violets. Stealing, and Riving odour.1 — Enough ; no more ; "Tin... | |
| 1837 - 574 Seiten
...these examples from his works, but rather to treat my readers with a feast of melody,— Of music,— " 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;"— a horse-laugh— " The... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 Seiten
...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 and giving odour. 4 — i. 1. 300 Love is like... | |
| George Burges - 1838 - 142 Seiten
...and, with a most admired complaisance, should respond, as if we were bewitched out of our very senses, 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. Truly, I see nothing of this... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 Seiten
...food of love, play on, Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. evils to ad south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis... | |
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