 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 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...of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; DO more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, bow quick and fresh art thou... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...tedious as go o'er. MUSIC. Give me some music ; music, moody food Of us that trade in love. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. Mark it, Cesario ; it is old, and plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids... | |
 | 1824 - 596 pages
..."Twelfth Night," he sings in numbers worthy of the immortality to which they are destined. If music he the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that...again; — it had a dying fall ; O, it came o'er my car like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets. &c. Hear him also in " The Merchant... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...our poet in these charming lines imitated his favourite Shakespeare, Twelfth Night at the beginning. That strain again, it had a dying fall ; O, it came...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Thyer. 555. The idea is strongly implied in these lines of Jonson's Vision of Delight, a Masque presented... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...sweet strain of music to the delicious scent of this flower: — Soft Straint of Music. If Music he 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, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...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...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. NATURAL AFFECTION ALLIED TO LOVE. O, she, that hath a heart of that fine frame, To pay this debt of... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler - 1825 - 356 pages
...TWELFTH-NIGHT: OR, WHAT YOU WILL. ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. An Apartment in the Duke'* Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords ; Musicians attending. Duke. If musick be the...sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. 0 spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou! That notwithstanding... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 548 pages
...WILL. ACT I. SCENE I. An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attendiny, Duke. IF musick be the food of love, play on, Give...dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south1, That breathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour2. — Enough; no more; 1 The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 404 pages
...4n Aparimentin the Duke's Palace. Enter Duke, CURIo, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. iKmusick he the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it ;...O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That hreathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis not so sweet... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Botany - 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...upon a bank of Violets, Stealing, and giving odour. Twelfth Night. In the soliloquy which the same bard gives us through Belisarius, in Cymbeline, he is... | |
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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... 
