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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... "
Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c., and of a Cruise in the Black Sea ... - Page 189
by Sir Adolphus Slade - 1854
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The heirs of Villeroy

Henrietta Rouvière Mosse - 1806 - 938 pages
...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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 426 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; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 12

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 344 pages
...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 ; no more ; Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on ..., Volume 2

1807 - 474 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." Twelfth Night, act 1. tc. 1. Lord Bacon, in the following passage, makes the very same comparison....
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the ...

Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 440 pages
...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...
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition, Addressed to His Son

George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...upon our other senses. „ " 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." Shaks, To the eye some appearances, and even some colours, are productive of pleasure. It is extremely...
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The nocturnal minstrel; or, The spirit of the wood, Volume 1

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,...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Sketch of the life of Shakspeare. Tempest ...

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 454 pages
...sickeu, 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; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now, a» it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art...
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Twelfth-night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer-night ...

William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 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; no more; Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh...
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