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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
edited by - 1863
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A commentary on the Act for the commutation of tithes in England and Wales

George Burges - Tithes - 1838 - 142 pages
...and, with a most admired complaisance, should respond, as if we were bewitched out of our very 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. Truly, I see nothing of this...
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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

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...dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. 4 — i. 1. 300 Love is like...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Life. New facts regarding the life ...

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...
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Twelfth night. Much ado about nothing. As you like it

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...dying fall. O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south. That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing, and giving odor. — Enough ; no more ; "Tis...
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The album of love, containing love thoughts [in verse] by many contributors

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...
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The Philosophy of Shakspere: Extracted from His Plays

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...
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The plays and poems of Shakespeare, according to the improved text ..., Volume 4

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...dying fall. O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odor. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis...
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An essay on punctuation

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...dying fall : ' O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. — Shakspeare. It was a fixed...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: As you like it. The taming of the shrew ...

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...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...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes original and ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 394 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;...and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fail : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south1, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing,...
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