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 - 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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