 | John Walker - 1823 - 406 Seiten
...Twelfth Night, relieving 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 380 Seiten
...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 ; 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,i... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 Seiten
...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....of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; DO more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, bow quick and fresh art thou... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...MUSIC. Give me some music ; music, moody food Of us that trade in love. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting,...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... | |
 | 1824 - 596 Seiten
...sings in numbers worthy of the immortality to which they are destined. If music he the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that surfeiting, The...again; — it had a dying fall ; O, it came o'er my car like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets. &c. Hear him also in " The Merchant... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 Seiten
...our poet in these charming lines imitated his favourite Shakespeare, Twelfth Night at the beginning. That strain again, it had a dying fall ; O, it came...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... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 Seiten
...music to the delicious scent of this flower: — Soft Straint of Music. If Music he the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting,...so die. — 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... | |
 | Alexander Chisholm Gooden, Cambridge University Library - 2003 - 246 Seiten
...one of the Carbonari, which from what I hear, contains stories of ' ' If music be the food oflove, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The...and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall . . . Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene I ' ' An ironical phrase: apparently popularised after... | |
 | Henry James - 2003 - 276 Seiten
...'dying fair. Lingering cadence. 3. (p. 46) spoil. 4. (p. 47) Mrs Siddons. If music be the food of love, play on: Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The...and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall; (Twelfth Night I. '-4) It is revealed later that Aspern composed some memorable love-lyrics. Booty,... | |
 | Theocritus Junior - 2003 - 281 Seiten
...such a charm To make bad good, and good provoke to harm." And again— " 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; Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank... | |
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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 south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing... 
