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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 south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing... "
The Juvenile Mentor; Or, Select Readings ... - Page 249
by Albert Picket - 1825 - 262 pages
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, Part 1

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying f all : 0, 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 t him ! That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...sicken, and so die. 'hat strain again ; — it had a dying fall : 0> H came o'er ray ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing,...odour. — Enough ; no more; Tis not so sweet now, as itwas before. (' spirit of lovr, how quick andfresh art thou ! f hat, uoth withstanding thy capacity...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...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, and giving odour. — Enough ; DO more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, bow quick and fresh art thou...
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The Philomathic journal, Volume 1

Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...are here assembled: " That strain again—it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er the ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour." We perceive, then, that there is a faculty of imagining objects and relations which we have never seen,—of...
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The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...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 and giving odour. NATURAL AFFECTION ALLIED TO LOVE. O, she, that hath a heart of that fine frame, To pay this debt of...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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, and giving odour. Mark it, Cesario ; it is old, and plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids...
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Table Talk: Or, Original Essays on Men and Manners, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...their sweetest perfume from the first heartfelt sigh of pleasure breathed upon them, " like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour !" If I have pleasure in a flower-garden, I have in a kitchen-garden too, and for the same reason....
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Table-talk; or, Original essays, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...sweetest perfume from the first heartfelt sigh of pleasure breathed upon them, — — " like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour ! " If I have pleasure in a flower-garden, I have in a kitchen-garden too, and for the same reason....
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...sicken, and so die. — 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! There are several kinds of Violets; but the fragrant both blue and white is the earliest, thence called...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...Night at the beginning. 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. Thyer. 555. The idea is strongly implied in these lines of Jonson's Vision of Delight, a Masque presented...
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