 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 and...  Wellesley Magazine - Página 2021894Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Edward Vaughan Kenealy - 1845 - 356 páginas
...heard in happier hours." I remember to have read something like this in SHAKSPEARE. Twelfth Night, " 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 giving odour." Poor Young, too, comes in... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 páginas
...blowing be-low the1 violet." We have another l>eautiful comparison in a scene in "Twelfth Night:"— " That strain again ! it had a dying fall ; Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sotith, That breathes upon a hank of Violets, Healing, and giving odour." But, perhaps, the most delicious... | |
 | 1845 - 614 páginas
...of love, play on I Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — +o+ & 6 6; 7 ny ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odor. — Enough... | |
 | 1881 - 494 páginas
...peaceful weariness, while Magdalene knelt once more in the moonlight to finish her prayers. CHAPTER V. " That strain again, it had a dying fall, Oh, it came...like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violete." SHAKESPEARE. A STILL quiet summer morning, soft hazy sky over Silver How, and Grasmere lying... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 páginas
...formed the theme of many a poet: Shakespeare compares it to the dying fall of plaintive music : — " 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 giving odour." • f The word culver, from... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1848 - 356 páginas
...peace, the property, and the lives of the noblehearted Puritans. 284 CHAPTER XII. THE THREE DEATH-BEDS. "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 giving odor." SHAKSPEJLRE. OWES, Baxter, Howe,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1848 - 466 páginas
...play on, Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting, - ' The appetite may sicken, and so die. — [Music. 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, [Music. Stealing, and giving odors. — ' Enough ; no... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1850 - 148 páginas
...called his father and hjs daughter ; then, with an apology, he quickly retired. CHAPTER XLVII. "What 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 giving odor. * * * О spirit of love, how fresh... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1850 - 414 páginas
...peace, the property, and the lives of the noble-hearted Puritans. CHAPTER XIII. THE THREE DEATH-BEDS. " That strain again, — it had a dying fall; Oh ! it came o'er my car like the sweet sonth That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." SHAKSPEARE.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 622 páginas
...surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall 1 : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound" That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; 'T is not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit... | |
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