 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...  The World's Best Poetry ... - Page 116edited by - 1904Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...power to follow you. 7 — ii. 2. 298 Sweet silent hours of marriage joys. 24 — iv. 4. 299 If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. 4 — i. 1. 300 Love is like a child, That longs for every thing that he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 608 pages
...An Apartment in tlie Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. f' Duke. If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it...dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,1 That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odor. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis... | |
 | 1837 - 574 pages
...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...my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour ;" — a horse-laugh — " The large Achilles, on his press'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 362 pages
...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...upon a bank of violets. Stealing, and giving odor. — Enough ; no more ; "Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
 | Album - 1841 - 158 pages
...silence is the sepulchre of thought, Wherein the anguish of her spirit dwells. R. MONTGOMERY. If music be the food of love, play on ! Give me excess of it...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...bite the best. King Henry VIII. Act v. Scene 2. PLEASURE PALLS BY OVF.R-INDt'LGENCE. Duke. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it;...that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. Twelfth Night. Act i. Scene 1. Claudio. As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 472 pages
...which can only spring out of deep poetic emotion, may be found in the poetic prose of Sidney. " Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor." Shaka. Twelfth-Night, act 1, sc. i. " And sweeter than the gentle southwest wind, O'er willowy meads... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 400 pages
...I. An apartment in the Duke's palace. Enter DUKE, cuaIo, Lords ; Musicians attending. Duke. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odor. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
 | F. Francillon - English language - 1842 - 118 pages
...articulate sounds distinct enough, which yet, by no means, are capable of language. — Locke, If musick be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it...sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. — Shakspeare. It was a fixed maxim in this reign [William the Conqueror]... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 560 pages
...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...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... | |
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