 | 1829 - 296 pagini
...heautifully this solemn silence sets ofTtheirinstruments! ' Play on,' my good fellows ! ' If music he the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it ;...so die. — That strain again ; it had a dying fall ; Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That hreathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing and... | |
 | Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 pagini
...some calm-breathing wind, That plays amidst the plain. The lines in Twelfth Night we all recollect : That strain again; — it had a dying fall : O, it...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. That these flowers were the most favourite ones of Shakspeare, there can be little doubt — Perditta... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pagini
...Duke's palace. jEnterDuke, Curio, Lords ; musicians attending. Duke. IF music be the food of lore, play on, Give me excess of it : that, surfeiting,...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 art thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 pagini
...I.— An apartment in 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...again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my car like the siveet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough... | |
 | 1832 - 498 pagini
...beautifully this solemn silence sets off their instruments ! " Play on," my good fellows ! " If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...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... | |
 | 1834 - 404 pagini
...Ibid. § Paradise Lost, bv || Ibid. its dying fall, to the sweet south breathing on a bank of violets. That strain again, it had a dying fall, O ! it came...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Twetfth Night. The elysian fields, those sweet regions of poetry, are adorned with all that fancy can... | |
 | John Auldjo - 1835 - 300 pagini
...rich descriptive imagery of Shakspeare appear, where he makes one of his characters exclaim : — " That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour ! " After following the Prince to the top of the Giant's Mountain, we allowed him to descend without... | |
 | 1836 - 744 pagini
...as though recalled by an act of memory, — but as if present and incarnate in the music; no • " That strain again ;— it had a dying fall: O, it...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour." ta Whatsoever is harmonically composed, delights in harmony : for even that vulgar and tavern music,... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 368 pagini
...not as though recalled by an act of memory, — but as if present and incarnate in the music; no * " That strain again ; — it had a dying fall: O, it...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour." -f- " AVhatsoever is harmonically composed, delights in harmony : for even that vulgar and tavern music,... | |
 | 1837 - 574 pagini
...these examples from his works, but rather to treat my readers with a feast of melody,— Of music,— " That strain again !—it had a dying fall: O, it came...a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour;"— a horse-laugh— " The large Achilles, on his press'd bed lolling, From his deep chest laughs out a... | |
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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... 
