 | Henry Phillips - 1829 - 398 pages
...Violet-embroider'd vale. Shakspeare compares the soft strains of plaintive music to the perfume of Violets — That strain again ; it had a dying fall : O, it came...sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of Violets, Stealing, and giving odour. Twelfth Night. In the soliloquy which the same bard gives us through Belisarius,... | |
 | Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 pages
...some calm-breathing wind, That plays amidst the plain. The lines in Twelfth Night we all recollect : That strain again; — it had a dying fall : O, it...sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. That these flowers were the most favourite ones of Shakspeare, there can... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 420 pages
...— An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...Duke's palace. jEnterDuke, Curio, Lords ; musicians attending. Duke. IF music be the food of lore, play on, Give me excess of it : that, surfeiting,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 pages
...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 me excess of it...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, and giving odour. — Enough... | |
 | 1832 - 498 pages
...beautifully this solemn silence sets off their instruments ! " Play on," my good fellows ! " If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...An Apartment in t he D uke ' a Palace. Enter Dona, CURIO, Lords: Musicians attending. Duke. IP music nd my profit therein, the heaping friendships. s) Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of... | |
 | 1834 - 404 pages
...Ibid. § Paradise Lost, bv || Ibid. its dying fall, to the sweet south breathing on a bank of violets. That strain again, it had a dying fall, O ! it came...sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Twetfth Night. The elysian fields, those sweet regions of poetry, are adorned... | |
 | John Auldjo - 1835 - 300 pages
...rich descriptive imagery of Shakspeare appear, where he makes one of his characters exclaim : — " That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it...sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour ! " After following the Prince to the top of the Giant's Mountain, we allowed... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 368 pages
...not as though recalled by an act of memory, — but as if present and incarnate in the music; no * " That strain again ; — it had a dying fall: O, it...sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour." -f- " AVhatsoever is harmonically composed, delights in harmony : for... | |
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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... 
