 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 and...  Wellesley Magazine - Page 2021894Full view - About this book
 | Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...he a Soul, {As much as Man can thofe mean Arts controul: / If Mufick be the Food of Love, play on : That Strain again : It had a dying Fall : Oh ! It came o'er my Ear like a fweet Sound, That breaths upon a Bank of Violets, Stealing and giving Odour. Shak. Twelfth Niskt... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1733 - 600 pages
...Twelfth-Night, particularly, "begins wi$ a fine Reflexion that admirably marks its footK'• n mg Properties. That Strain again; — It had a dying Fall. Oh, it came o'er my Ear like tkejweet fju That breathes upon a Bank of Violets, r .. j • • f\ i • «<>•••• *" Stealing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1767 - 488 pages
...begins with a fine reflection that admirably marks its foothing properties, t\ tC- i -; That ftrain again ; — It had a dying fall. Oh, it came o'er my ear like the fweet South, a 3 That n^'JcUj^i rn v"i • rt J1/1 « --"I j ,pteahng and giving odour i ' This fimilitiide... | |
 | William Combe - 1781 - 54 pages
...whore, And the next opportunity compleats My black difhonour. SOUTHERN. MR. LINLEY. Play on That ftrain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh! it came o'er my ear like -a fweet found, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odours. SHAKESP. Miss LINLEY.... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1789 - 376 pages
...was defctibing, in thefe charming lines, the very efFeft which they are made to produce. That ftrain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear, like the fweet fouth, That That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Twelfth Night. But... | |
 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1789 - 482 pages
...was ifefcribing, in thefe charming lines, the very effect which they are made to produce. That drain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear like the Iweet Couth, That That breathes upon a bank of violets, Steali ng, and giving odour- . Twelfth Night.... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...of voice : thus the Duke, in Shakspeare's Twelfth Night, relieving his melancholy 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... | |
 | John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 260 pages
...tuild pathetic sweetness, at the natural and simple melody of many of our Scotish songs. That ftrain again, it had a dying fall ; Oh ! it came o'er my ear like the fweet fouth, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. ( f) I deliver this... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 440 pages
...love, play on; Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. [Music. 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. [Music. Enough — no more... | |
 | Eleanor Sleath - 1810 - 208 pages
...Lant, Nat.man, and Co.J J.EAnENIIAI.L-STliE£T. 1810. CO. <s. THE NOCTURNAL MINSTREL. CHAP. I. * ' That strain again !— it had a dying fall ; Oh, it came o'er my ear like the street South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. SHAKESPEARE. >H, how... | |
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