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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... "
The family Shakespeare [expurgated by T. Bowdler]. in which those words are ... - Page 217
by William Shakespeare - 1853
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The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...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....
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A commentary on the Act for the commutation of tithes in England and Wales

George Burges - Tithes - 1838 - 142 pages
...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...
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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...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....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Life. New facts regarding the life ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 608 pages
...An Apartment in tlie Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. f' Duke. If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it...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 ; 'Tis...
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Twelfth night. Much ado about nothing. As you like it

William Shakespeare - 1841 - 362 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...sweet south. That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing, and giving odor. — Enough ; no more ; "Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit...
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The album of love, containing love thoughts [in verse] by many contributors

Album - 1841 - 158 pages
...silence is the sepulchre of thought, Wherein the anguish of her spirit dwells. R. MONTGOMERY. If music be the food of love, play on ! Give me excess of it...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...
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An essay on punctuation

F. Francillon - English language - 1842 - 118 pages
...make 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...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...
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The plays and poems of Shakespeare, according to the improved text ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 400 pages
...I. An apartment in the Duke's palace. Enter DUKE, cuaIo, Lords ; Musicians attending. Duke. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odor. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All ...

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 558 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...like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets1, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ! no more : 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before....
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes original and ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 394 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;...and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fail : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south1, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing,...
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