 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 602 pages
...addition, " above ground," when he converted a kindred image to the purposes of satire ? III. " 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." Twelfth Night, Act i.... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1848 - 264 pages
...Twelfth Night," he compares the gentle strains of plaintive music to their perfume : " 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." Barry Cornwall awards... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...play on, Give me excess of 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 odour. — Enough ; nc more... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 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 - 1850 - 656 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 odor. — Enough ; no more... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 614 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 odor.— Enough ; no more... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 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 ;... | |
 | Harriott TAYLER - Virtues - 1850 - 58 pages
...from Scripture will delight us in heaven, surely we may conscientiously enjoy it on earth. 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. This music crept by me... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 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. " . i NATURAL AFFECTION... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 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 hank of violets, Stealing, and giving odor. — Enough ; no more... | |
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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... 
