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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... "
An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors ... - Page 249
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare: With a Life, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1828 - 404 pages
...4n Aparimentin the Duke's Palace. Enter Duke, CURIo, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. iKmusick he the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it ;...dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That hreathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis...
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The Pocket Magazine

English literature - 1829 - 296 pages
...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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...food of love, play on, Give ше excees of it ; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and во 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, Mealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis...
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Man of Two Lives: A Narrative Written by Himself

James Boaden - English literature - 1829 - 340 pages
...disputed passage of " Twelfth Night," where his commentators are for reading south, (ie south wind.) " O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets." As I greatly preferred the organ to all other instruments, so I found it had stops so lulling and gentle...
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Flora Historica: Or, The Three Seasons of the British Parterre ..., Volume 1

Henry Phillips - Botany - 1829 - 398 pages
...Violet-embroider'd vale. Shakspeare compares the soft strains of plaintive music to the perfume of Violets — 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. In the soliloquy...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 420 pages
...— 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...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...
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On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening

Samuel Felton - Gardeners - 1830 - 270 pages
...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 came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. That these flowers were the...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 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...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...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...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,...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...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1832 - 498 pages
...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...
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