 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
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1821 - 372 pàgines
...narrative, and the charms of friendship and affection so delicately flowing through it. 847 " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour," fled as the connexion between the historian and the subject was changed, and the bond between the brothers... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 764 pàgines
...almost believes he heard before. The cadence of the other, which - " comes o'er the ear like die sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour " — or, perhaps, is more like that magic breath of aerial music which poets hear, or dream they hear,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 pàgines
...sicken, and eo die. 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,...no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. 0 spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou ! That notwithstanding thy capacity Received! as the... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pàgines
...sweet strain of music, to the delicious scent of this flower. O ! it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. There are several kinds of violets , but the fragrant (both blue and white) is the earliest, thence... | |
 | 1865 - 1194 pàgines
...to be multiplied by millions to bring them up to the tension of ordinary air." Thus — " the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour," owes its sweetness to an agent which, though almost infinitely attenuated, nay be more potent as an... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 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 - 1823 - 380 pàgines
...again ; — it had a dying fall : ,' O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,i That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour.* Enough...before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou ! That, notwithstanding thy capacity [1] Amongst the beauties of this charming similitude, its... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pàgines
...sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : <), it came o'er my ear like the sweet the dearest chandler's in Europe. I Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou ! That notwithstanding... | |
 | John Walker - 1823 - 406 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - 1823 - 498 pàgines
...plaintive music, desires " 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." We are told, in the notes to Mr. Steevens' Edition of Shakspeare, that the Violet is an emblem of faithfulness... | |
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