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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... "
Twelfth-night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer-night ... - Page 5
by William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811
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La dodicesima notte ovvero quel che volete

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 220 pages
...marinai, membri del seguito Music. Enter Orsino Duke oflttyria, Curio, and other II lordi ORSINO If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it,...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 and giving...
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The Turn of the Screw & the Aspern Papers

Henry James - Drama - 1993 - 228 pages
...98) 'dying fall' a lingering cadence; a reference to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, 1,1,1-4: If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it,...so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall... 3 (p. 98) spoil plundered treasure 4 (p. 98)Afrr Siddons Sarah Siddons (1755-1831), an English tragedienne...
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Four Comedies

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...edition in Shakespeare's day. Music. Enter Orsino Duke oflllyria, Curio, and other lords ORSINO If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it,...and so die. That strain again! It had a dying fall. 1. 1 . i The eighteenth-century custom of localizing scenes ('A street', etc.) has been dropped in...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...late, Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves And drave great Mars to faction. 103 If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it,...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 and giving...
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Collected Prose

Charles Olson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 492 pages
...return you now to London, to beginnings, to the syllable, for the pleasures of it, to intermit; If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it,...and so die. That strain again. It had a dying fall, o, it came over my ear like the sweet sound that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving...
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English Literature for AQA A

Tony Childs, Jackie Moore - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 196 pages
...Twelfth Night: [Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending^ DUKE ORSINO If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it,...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 and giving...
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莎士比亞通論: 喜劇

顏元叔 - Comedy - 2001 - 838 pages
...而且是熱戀苦 戀。 他在聽音樂, 想借音樂「 澆愁」 , 安慰自己的苦心: Duke. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me eXcess of it,...dying fall; 0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Enough, no more; Tis not so...
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Twelfth Night

Jennifer Mulherin - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 36 pages
...finding enough favour to get a little closer. The story of Twelfth Night ' ' " "\ .'V, > , 14 If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it,...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 and giving...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...otro tanto. No comparéis Ese amor que me puede tener una mujer Con el que debo a Olivia.2 1. If music be the food of love, play on, /Give me excess of it,...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 and...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...as night And his affections dark as Erebus; Let no such man be trusted. Lorenzo — MV Vi If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it,...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 and giving...
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