 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1805 - 340 pages
...to the popular ballads of particular countries, such as Switzerland and Scotland. They come o'er the ear, like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour They show in the greatest degree the power of the association of ideas. They can awaken the lively... | |
 | Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1805 - 340 pages
...popular ballads of particular countries, such as Switzerland and Scotland. They come o'er the car, like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour They show in the greatest degree the power of the association of ideas. They can awaken the lively... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 522 pages
...Musicians attending. Duke. If music he the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting,1 The appetite may sicken, and so die That strain again; — it had a dying fall:2 O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,3 1 Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, &.c.]... | |
 | Sydney Melmoth - English prose literature - 1805 - 368 pages
...describe, but which Shakespeare expressed thus : " It comes over the heart as soft music does over the ear ; Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank, of violets. It is most fortunate for men to have hearts so framed that they derive pleasure from such recollections.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 426 pages
...Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. IP musick be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The...of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou t... | |
 | Henrietta Rouvière Mosse - 1806 - 938 pages
...justly-beloved child, from the kindest and tenderest of parents. c\3 CHAP. CHAP. II " Oh ! it came o'er her ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets ; - Stealing and giving odour." JL HE morning sun had shot his lucid beams above the hills, and breaking through the aperture of the... | |
 | Rachel Hunter - 1806 - 802 pages
...more than eace betrayed him into tears and myself into sadness, by sounds which came **• " o'er his ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets." Two or three songs of Horace's are now locked up; and the baronet is contented with being roused to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 344 pages
...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 ; that, surfeiting,...of violets, Stealing and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...SCENE I. Tite Duke' t Palace. Enter the Duke, Curia, and Lnrds. Duke. "If musick be the food of love, play on, *• Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting,...had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the swett south. That breathes upon a bulk of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more... | |
 | 1807 - 474 pages
...every one's recollection, I shall make no apology for quoting it here. " 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... | |
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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 south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing... 
