 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 and...  Shakspere-Lexikon [Shakespeare-Lexikon] - Sivu 59tekijä(t) Nikolaus Delius - 1852 - 487 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | James Boaden - 1829 - 340 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1881 - 494 sivua
...more in the moonlight to finish her prayers. CHAPTER V. " That strain again, it had a dying fall, Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violete." SHAKESPEARE. A STILL quiet summer morning, soft hazy sky over Silver How, and Grasmere lying... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 622 sivua
...surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall 1 : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound" That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; 'T is not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 620 sivua
...surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall ' : 0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound* That breathes upon a bank of violets,Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more' ; 'T is not so sweet now as it was before.... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 564 sivua
...had to change it to wind ? Would either have been willing to own that he could not understand, " O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets." ? Upon what ground did they then presume to change it ? Because wind or South were better words, in... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 596 sivua
...had to change it to wind? Would either have been willing to own that he could not understand, " O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violetB." f Upon what ground did they then presume to change it ? Because wind or South were better... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1859 - 784 sivua
...North, to signify The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ; it had a dying fall : 0, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet sound" That breathes upon a bank of violets, the soft whisper of the breeze :— "The soft tauth of the swyre, and sound of the stremes, The sweit... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1859 - 722 sivua
...that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — That strain again: it had a dying fall: 0! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound , That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough! no more: 'T is not so sweet now, as it was before. 0, spirit of love! how quick and fresh... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1860 - 792 sivua
...North, to signify 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 viólete, the soft whisper of the breeze : — "The soft Mouth of the swyre, and sound of the stremes,... | |
 | Robert Cartwright - 1862 - 200 sivua
...Ctesar, act ii., scene 1. Another contested passage ; may not path be a misprint for pass ? . " O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." — Twelfth Night, act i., scene 1. "So the early text," says Mr. Staunton, "but Pope changed sound... | |
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