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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... "
Midsummer-night's dream. Twelfth night. Taming of the shrew. Two gentlemen ... - Page 56
by William Shakespeare - 1895
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Twelfth night. Winter's tale

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 pages
...TWELFTH-NIGHT: OR, WHAT YOU WILL. ACT I. SCENE I. Tkc Dvkfi Palace. Enter Duke, CURIO, and Lords, Duke. IF muskk 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 camic o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, . Stealing, and...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

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...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the exclamation in a harsh and...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...I. An Apartment in tke Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. IF musick be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it;...so die. That strain again; — it had a dying fall: O, it caifle o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and...
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“The” Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 408 pages
...in the Duke's palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords ; Musicians attending. If mupick be the food of lovef play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The...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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 518 pages
...An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords ; Musiciajis attending. Duke. If musick be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it;...«• 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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 410 pages
...I. An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. If musick be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it;...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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 426 pages
...I. An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. IP musick be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it;...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...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 12

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 344 pages
...ACT I. S.CENE I.— An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter Duke, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. If music be the food of love, play on, Give...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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Explanatory Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...of Illyria. ACT I. SCENE I. Tite Duke' t Palace. Enter the Duke, Curia, and Lnrds. Duke. "If musick be the food of love, play on, *• Give me excess...so die, That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the swett south. That breathes upon a bulk of violets, Stealing, and...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on ..., Volume 2

1807 - 474 pages
...the passage is in every one's recollection, I shall make no apology for quoting it here. " If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it;...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...
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