 | 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...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. Truly, I see nothing of this superlative excellence about it, where all its lineaments appear dark... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - 1838 - 280 Seiten
...wave, surge after surge, billow upon billow, winding itself into the innermost cells of the soul! " Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet South, That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." Illinois River* XI. " You will excuse me if I do not strictly confine myself to nar> ration, but now... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 Seiten
...power to follow you. 7 — ii. 2. 298 Sweet silent hours of marriage joys. 24 — iv. 4. 299 If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. 4 — i. 1. 300 Love is like a child, That longs for every thing that he can come by. 2— iii. 1.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 608 Seiten
...An Apartment in tlie Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. f' Duke. If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it...dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,1 That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odor. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis... | |
 | 1837 - 574 Seiten
...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...my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour ;" — a horse-laugh — " The large Achilles, on his press'd... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 Seiten
...divilment.' ' PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS. " That strain again ! It had a dying fall : Ob, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour !" SHAKSPEARE. The star of Apollo brightly beams in the ascendant. Talk as you will, you cannot, if... | |
 | 1840 - 528 Seiten
...displays of Fancy are to be found in Shakspeare — " 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. " Or those still more touching lines — " She never told her love, But let concealment, like the worm... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 362 Seiten
...I. An apartment in the Duke's palace, Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords ; Musicians attending. Duke. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...sweet south. That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing, and giving odor. — Enough ; no more ; "Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit... | |
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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 sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing... 
