 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 Works of Shakespeare - Page 97by William Shakespeare - 1752Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...these charming lines imitated his favourite 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... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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. Mark it, Cesario ; it... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...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. — Enough ; DO more... | |
 | Benjamin Maund - 1824 - 264 pages
...Twelfth Night. He there represents the Duke enraptured with a sweet strain of music, saying " That strain again — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." SHAKSPEARE. The shrubby... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...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. NATURAL AFFECTION ALLIED... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 508 pages
...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. — Enough ; no more;... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1826 - 338 pages
...Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting, The'a'ppetite may'sicken, and so die. — [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 odours. — [Music. Enough... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 pages
...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 south1, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour2. — Enough; no more;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 pages
...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. — Enough ; no more... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 404 pages
...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 hreathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more... | |
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