 | Horticulture - 1847 - 736 pages
...Shakspeare compares the soft strains of plaintive music to the perfume of Violets:— " 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." That the Violet was... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 220 pages
...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 giving odour. Enough, no more! Tis not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...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 giving odor. Enough, no more. Tis not... | |
 | Jessica Kerr - Literary Criticism - 1969 - 100 pages
...thought often of banks of primroses as pleasant places for men or fairies to recline. 43 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 giving odour. VIOLET —TWELFTH NIGHT... | |
 | Alan J. Hommerding - Music - 1997 - 180 pages
...Nineteenth century 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 giving odor! William Shakespeare Sixteenth... | |
 | Europe - 1839 - 776 pages
...roiebcrftljret , fie&t 3îur ©ant unb Sanb, fo rocit tie SBufte gluljt. Sßon ¿lit». — !.. That si ni in again; — it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathee upon a bank of violeta, Stealing , and giving odonr. " Shakespeare. fiel... | |
 | Tony Childs, Jackie Moore - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 196 pages
...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 giving odour. Enough! no more: 'Tis... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 36 pages
...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 giving odour. Enough, no more; 'Tis... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 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 sound / That breathes upon a bank of violets, / Stealing and giving odour. 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... 
