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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... "
The family Shakespeare [expurgated by T. Bowdler]. in which those words are ... - Page 217
by William Shakespeare - 1853
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Twelfth night. Winter's tale

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 pages
...TWELFTH-NIGHT: OR, WHAT YOU WILL. ACT I. SCENE I. Tkc Dvkfi Palace. Enter Duke, CURIO, and Lords, Duke. IF muskk be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...die That strain again ;--it had a dying fall : O, it camic o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, . Stealing, and giving...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...TWELFTH-NIGHT: OR, WHAT YOU WILL. ACT J. SCENE I. An Apartment in tke Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. IF musick be the...That strain again; — it had a dying fall: O, it caifle o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pages
...surfeiting, See.] So in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. " And now excess of it will make me " surfeit." Line 4. That strain again; it had a dying fall; O! it came...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour ] Amongst the beauties of this charming similitude, its exact propriety is not the least. For, as a...
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“The” Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 408 pages
...in the Duke's palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords ; Musicians attending. If mupick be the food of lovef play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The...of violets, Stealing and giving odour. — Enough ; 110 more; •Tis not so swctt now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art tlioti...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 410 pages
...coast near it. OR, WHAT YOU WILL. ACT I. SCENE I. An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. If musick be the...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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Explanatory Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...City on tite Coast of Illyria. ACT I. SCENE I. Tite Duke' t Palace. Enter the Duke, Curia, and Lnrds. Duke. "If musick be the food of love, play on, *•...had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the swett south. That breathes upon a bulk of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more...
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition, Addressed to His Son

George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...compared, and perhaps not without reason, to certain impressions produced upon our other senses. „ " That strain again ; — it had a dying fall, O, it...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour." Shaks, To the eye some appearances, and even some colours, are productive of pleasure. It is extremely...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love Like to old age. Hud. If musick be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess...sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving adour. — Enough, no more, Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 440 pages
...An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter Dale, CURIO, Lards ; Musicians attending. IF Duke. ' 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 odour.2 — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Sketch of the life of Shakspeare. Tempest ...

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 454 pages
...music be the food of lov«, play on, Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sickeu, and so die.- * • That strain again ;— it had a...odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now, a» it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou! That notwithstanding thy capacity...
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