 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...  Twelfth night. Winter's tale - Page 5by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
 | M M. Busk - 1825 - 972 pages
...resemblance to the wooing, which, from the lips of Lionel Gressingholme, had " Come o'er her heart like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour;" that two or three suitors, even military heroes, had been for some time assiduously paying their addresses... | |
 | 1825 - 668 pages
...into Elysium? I know not how it was, but it came over the sense with a power not to be resisted, " like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." I mention these things to shew, as I think, that pleasures are not " like poppies spread , You seize... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 pages
...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...no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou ! That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 548 pages
...— and yet I know not. " Shakspeare alone conld describe the effect of his own poetry ; " O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour." " What we so much admire here is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been so generally... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 pages
...— and yet I know not. " Shakspeare alone could describe the effect of his own poetry " O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour." " What we so much admire here is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been so generally... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 464 pages
...into Elysium ? I know not how it was ; but it came over the sense with a power not to be resisted, " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." I mention these things to shew, as I think, that pleasures are not " Like poppies spread, You seize... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Rationalism - 1826 - 462 pages
...into Elysium ?, I know not how it was ; but it came over the sense with a power not to be resisted, " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." I mention these things to shew, as I think, that pleasures are not " Like poppies spread, You seize... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...into Elysium ? I know not how it was ; but it came over the sense with a power not to be resisted, " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." I mention these things to shew, as I think, that pleasures are not " Like poppies spread, You seize... | |
 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - 1827 - 972 pages
...rapturously exclaimed, as he attempted to take her hand, I would say — " That strain again ; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." Twelfth Night. Rebecca coloured, and silently withdrew her hand. It was the first compliment she had... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 522 pages
...illustrated as in these few words of sweetness and melody, where the author says of soft music— O it came o'er my ear, like the sweet South That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. This is still finer, we think, than the noble speech on music in the Merchant of Venice, and only to... | |
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