 | 802 pages
...PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS. " That strain again ! It had a dying fall : Ob, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour '." SHAKSPBARE. The star of Apollo brightly beams iu the ascendant. Talk as you will, you cannot, if... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...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, and giving odour. — Enough ; nc more ; 'Tit not so sweet now, as it was before. О spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
 | William Howells - 1831 - 220 pages
...could not describe the melody ; but we will say with the inimitable bard of Ayon, that it came o'er his ear «' Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." His curiosity being naturally excited by the strains, (which proceeded from a meadow near at hand)... | |
 | 1878 - 816 pages
...appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again : — it had a dying fall : Oh, it cac,e o'er my ear like the sweet South That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. Enough — no more ! 'T is not so sweet now as it was before." Ther other... | |
 | 1850 - 248 pages
...faithful friends of her parents. MUSIC. 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!— THE DOVE SET FREE. BY T. W. KELLY. AH ! mother, mother ! tell me why My pretty turtle-dove So pensive... | |
 | 1924 - 978 pages
...beautiful opening of Twelfth Night : 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. Yet, somehow, the reflection arises that Shakespeare, much as he loved music, and beautiful as are... | |
 | Joy Carden - 1980 - 172 pages
..."Bring music! stir the brooding air with an etherial breath." "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." Reader, were you at the concert on Friday? — If not, you have certainly lost a fine and rich repast... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1979 - 204 pages
...surfeiting The appetite may sicken and so die. 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 odours. Enough ! no more, 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. (1.1.1-8) In... | |
 | Eduard Hanslick - 1986 - 152 pages
...personification of such musical hearing. He says: If music be the food of love, play on; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! And later, in Act II, he exclaims: Give me some music . . . Methought it did relieve my passion much... | |
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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, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear... 
