 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 - 1814 - 470 pàgines
...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,...before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou ! That notwithstanding thy capacity Rec€ireth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pàgines
...sicken, and so die. That strain again : — it had a <lying fall : O, it came 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 Recciveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity... | |
 | 1816 - 420 pàgines
...in a charming similitude, compares an exquisite strain of music, with its dying fall, ' to the sweet south, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour.' And, to mention no more, Thomson, in his noble hymn at the conclusion of the ' Seasons,' invites the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 360 pàgines
...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,...no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. О spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou! That, notwithstanding thy capacity [1] Amongst the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pàgines
...Sliakespear alone could describe the effect of his own poetry. " Oh, it came o'er the ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." What we so much admire here is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been generally quoted,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 358 pàgines
...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,...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 Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pàgines
...Shakspeare alone could describe the effect of his own poetry. " Oh, it came o'er the ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." What we so much admire here, is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been generally quoted,... | |
 | Albert Picket - 1820 - 314 pàgines
...bank of violets, O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, Stealing and giving odour.—Enough, no more, 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thov ! That notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there. Of what validity... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pàgines
...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,...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 - 1821 - 528 pàgines
...strain." HOLT WHITE. O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet South3, That breathes upon a bank of violets 4, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ;...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... | |
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