 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...  The Juvenile Mentor; Or, Select Readings ... - Pàgina 249per Albert Picket - 1825 - 262 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 pàgines
...NIGHT. ACT I. Unt 4. THAT strain again ; it had a dying fall: 0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing, and giving odour. ] Among the beauties of this eharming similitude, its exaft propriety is not the least. For, as a south... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 pàgines
...soft melody : " That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : 0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." And Milton, in one of his early poems, says : — * Alison " On Taste," pp. 152, 174. " And ever against... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pàgines
...undoubtedly taken from asfine a one in Shakspeare's Twelfth Night, at the beginning: - like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. But much improved (as Dr. Greenwood remarks) by the addition of that beautiful metaphor, included in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1797 - 600 pàgines
...again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the fweet fouth,* That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis not fo fweet now, as it was before. O fpirit of love, how quick and frefti art thou ! That, notwithftanding... | |
 | John Walker - 1799 - 438 pàgines
...again ; — it had a dying fall ; O, it came o'er my ear, like the fvveet fouth, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough, no more, 'Tis not fo fweet now, as it was before. O fpirit of love, how quick and frem art thou ! That, notwithstanding... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 426 pàgines
...llrain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the fweet fouth, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; *Tis not fo fweet now, as it was before. O fpirit of love, how quick and frefh art thou 1 That notwithftanding... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 420 pàgines
...ftrain again ; — it had a dying fall : 0, it came o'er my ear like the fweet fouth, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis not fo fweet now, as it was before. O fpirit of love, how quick and frefli art thou 1 That notwithstanding... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 pàgines
...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 - 1803 - 494 pàgines
...sicken, and so die. 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,...before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou ! That notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pàgines
..." surfeit." Line 4. 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 ] Amongst the beauties of this charming similitude, its exact propriety is not the least. For, as a... | |
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