 | William Shakespeare - 1921 - 874 pàgines
...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 giving odour ! Enough...fresh art thou ! That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there. Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1923 - 372 pàgines
...cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep. « 80 IF music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it...no more .. 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. 8i 'The Arts O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth... | |
 | Frank Harris - 1909 - 452 pàgines
...that surfeiting The appetite may 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...no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before." Every one will notice that Shakespeare as we know him in Romeo is here depicted again with insistence... | |
 | André Gide - 1924 - 238 pàgines
...below, with these lines of Shakespeare's as motto: " That strain again, — it had a dying fall: Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes...Enough; no more, Tis not so sweet now as it was before.' "Yes! In spite of myself, I looked for you the whole morning, my brother. I could not believe that... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert - 1927 - 560 pàgines
...strain again ! it had a dying fall : 0', it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! Enough;...fresh art thou! That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, 509 But falls into abatement... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Tucker Brooke - 1927 - 984 pàgines
...strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, 5 That breathes upon uld you burden love ; Too great oppression for a tender...and it pricks like thorn. Mer. If love be rough wi :o Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement... | |
 | William Peacock - 1928 - 476 pàgines
...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 giving odour. Enough...fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement... | |
 | 1897 - 962 pàgines
..." it reminds one strongly of the exquisite passage in Twelfth Night where the Duke exclaims : — " mmission higher than the world's, — the dictate...prosit." Edward Waldo Emerson. THE DECLINE OF LEGISLATUR I have little doubt that Bacon had this passage in mind when he wrote the Essay of Gardens, which was... | |
 | 1850 - 248 pàgines
...the wife of a gentleman named Champagneux, one of the most faithful friends of her parents. MUSIC. THAT strain again ;—it had a dying fall; —O !...a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour!— THE DOVE SET FREE. BY T. W. KELLY. AH ! mother, mother ! tell me why My pretty turtle-dove So pensive... | |
 | 1924 - 978 pàgines
...easy to make an anthology of his descriptions, beginning with the beautiful opening of Twelfth Night : That strain again ! It had a dying fall : O ! it came...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Yet, somehow, the reflection arises that Shakespeare, much as he loved music, and beautiful as are... | |
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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... 
