 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 440 pages
...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, Stealing, and giving odour. [Music. Enough — no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and... | |
 | Sarah Harriet Burney - 1808 - 312 pages
...he -"seated'himself, " I 'thought, not'Jong since, ! *hat 4 heard the-sound *t)f * mttsic, -stealing o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets. << Who was the fair ihaft&fti&t ? -find have her syfefl strains so speedily ceased ?" Geraldine smiled,... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pages
...compared, and perhaps not without reason, to certain impressions produced upon our other senses. „ " That strain again ; — it had a dying fall, O, it...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour." Shaks, To the eye some appearances, and even some colours, are productive of pleasure. It is extremely... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...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...sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving adour. — Enough, no more, Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 440 pages
...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,1 That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour.2 — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis... | |
 | Eleanor Sleath - 1810 - 208 pages
...MINSTREL. CHAP. I. * ' That strain again !— it had a dying fall ; Oh, it came o'er my ear like the street South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. SHAKESPEARE. >H, how enchanting are those notes ! surely some being from a happier world — some spirit,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 454 pages
...lov«, play on, Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sickeu, and so die.- * • That strain again ;— it had a dying fall : O, it...a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now, a» it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : 0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quiek and fresh... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 434 pages
...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,1 That breathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. 2>— Enough ; no more ;... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1812 - 500 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 odourThey show in the greatest degree the power of the association of ideas. They... | |
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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... 
