 | George Burges - 1838 - 142 pàgines
...and, with a most admired complaisance, should respond, as if we were bewitched out of our very senses, That strain again ; it had a dying fall : O, it came...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. Truly, I see nothing of this superlative excellence about it, where all its lineaments appear dark... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pàgines
...power to follow you. 7 — ii. 2. 298 Sweet silent hours of marriage joys. 24 — iv. 4. 299 If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. 4 — i. 1. 300 Love is like a child, That longs for every thing that he can come by. 2— iii. 1.... | |
 | Album - 1841 - 158 pàgines
...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...fresh art thou ! That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, — nought enters there Of what validity and pitch soever, But falls into abatement... | |
 | F. Francillon - 1842 - 118 pàgines
...articulate sounds distinct enough, which yet, by no means, are capable of language. — Locke, If musick be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. — Shakspeare. It was a fixed maxim in this reign [William the Conqueror] as well as in some of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1846 - 574 pàgines
...again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,1 That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour.* Enough...fresh art thou ! That, notwithstanding thy capacity [I] Amongst the beauties of this charming similitude, its exact propriety is not the least. For, aa... | |
 | 1848 - 650 pàgines
...Shakespere knew how fully the solace of song nurses the affections and has made the Duke say — If Music be the food of Love, play on, Give me excess of it...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Viola, when she hears the Duke praised, is already half in love with him, at least esteem, the best... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pàgines
...surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : О ! it is so fearful. 8|>rak your office. Vin. It alone...hold ihr olive in my hand : my words are as full of Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er. But falls into abatement... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 474 pàgines
...that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : 0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes...no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. 0 spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou ! That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the... | |
 | 1847 - 736 pàgines
...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...upon a bank of Violets, Stealing, and giving odour." That the Violet was a favourite with Shakspeare is most evident, by the beautiful simile he makes Perdita... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1848 - 264 pàgines
...again, in " Twelfth Night," he compares the gentle strains of plaintive music to their perfume : " That strain again ;— it had a dying fall : O, it...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." Barry Cornwall awards to the Violet precedence of the Rose; and Miss Landon intimates in some very... | |
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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... 
