 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 560 pages
...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, and giving odour. — Enough ! no more... | |
 | George Ramsay - Ethics - 1843 - 574 pages
...raising the tender emotions : If music 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 giving odour.46 Music-masters have... | |
 | American literature - 1844 - 504 pages
...night," what a beautiful comparison of soft music to a breath of wind passing over its bed ! 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 odor. WHAT IS AFFECTION? What... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 398 pages
...play on; Give me excess of it ; thai, forfeiting, The appetite mny niclcen. and sor/'V Thai strain again; — it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet ww(A, Thrw breathes upon a bank of rm/rtt. Stealing and igifintt odor. Knou«rh. no mora; *T;s... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...play on ; Give me eccessof it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die, That ¿train 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 odor. Enough, no more ; 'Tis... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...me «r«» of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and 90 die.' That strain agiiin ; — it had a dying fall ; O, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet MouA, '',' ; breaches upon a hank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. Knough, no more; Tis... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...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 and giving odor. — Enough, no more, '... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1846 - 574 pages
...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,1 That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour.* Enough ; no more ;... | |
 | 1848 - 650 pages
...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 and giving odour. Viola, when she hears... | |
 | Horticulture - 1847 - 736 pages
...Shakspeare compares the soft strains of plaintive music to the perfume of Violets:— " 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 odour." That the Violet was... | |
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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... 
