 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 ... - Page 249by Albert Picket - 1825 - 262 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 pages
...sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my car like the siveet 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 Receiveth as the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...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 ; nc more ; 'Tit not so sweet now, as it was before. О spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou... | |
 | D. E. Williams - 1831 - 746 pages
...The moon was in her fullest splendor — the air as soft and balmy as Shakspeare's " Like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." Two friends of the Prince who followed us, made up the only party at this scene of solitary grandeur... | |
 | John Drakakis, Terence Hawkes - Drama - 1985 - 324 pages
...'appetite' and 'cloy men t' recalls his earlier selfdescription, and his own rapidly surfeited desire ('Enough, no more; / 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before', I. i. 7-8) suggesting an implicit confession of effeminacy that undermines his present claims to masculine... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Brothers and sisters - 1992 - 132 pages
...strain again! It had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound2 That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Enough, no more! 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. [Music ceases.} O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity... | |
 | John G. Nachbar, Kevin Lausé - Popular culture - 1992 - 524 pages
...ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Enough 1 no more: 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O' Spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou, That, not withstanding thy capacity Receivith as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley - Fiction - 1993 - 260 pages
...Nature (1736). "Hamlet, \\.ii. 192. 20 Twelfth Night, I. i. 5-7: 'O, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south / That breathes upon a bank of violets, / Stealing, and giving odour.' 21 The Lisbon earthquake of November 1755 devastated the city. 22 cf. James Boswell, The Journal of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 220 pages
...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 odour. Enough,...before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity ,„ Receiveth as the sea, naught enters there, Of what validity... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...(Orsino's longing for music) 4 fait cadence O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Enough,...before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, 10 That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, naught enters there, Of what validity... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. Enough, no more. Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, That, not withstanding thy capacity, Receiveth as the sea. Nought enters there, Of what validity... | |
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