 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...  The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Էջ 4531865Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Augustus Bozzi Granville - 1838 - 628 էջ
...one who, from his birth, has loved music as the soother of grief, and on whose ear it comes " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour," Saltzburg recalled the name of two of the master spirits of that enchanting art, one of whom left an... | |
 | George Burges - 1838 - 142 էջ
...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 superlative excellence about it, where all its lineaments appear dark... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - 1838 - 306 էջ
...billow upon billow, winding itself into the innermost cells of the soul [ " Oh, it eamc o'er my ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." Elinois River. XL " You will excuse me if I do not strictly confine myself to narjation, but ROW and... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 էջ
...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 breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
 | John Fiske - 1899 - 502 էջ
...where the Duke exclaims: — (A) " 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." • - » , ' <-» LXI / k cii- • f\. • \ / I have little doubt that Bacon had this passage in mind... | |
 | John Fiske - 1900 - 504 էջ
...where the Duke exclaims: — " 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." I have little doubt that Bacon had this passage in mind when he wrote the " Essay of Gardens," which... | |
 | Julia Parker Dabney - 1901 - 296 էջ
...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 breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour ! " Shakespeare makes the duke sigh in " Twelfth Night." In Shakespeare the sense of union between... | |
 | John Milton - 1895 - 134 էջ
...the breeze snatches perfumes from their very beds," ie the flower beds (Bhagavad-G'ita), and " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour" (Twelfth Night, I. i. 5-7). 159. As, when, etc. Compare n. 636-642. These similes are indications of... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 570 էջ
...where the Duke exclaims : — " 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." I have little doubt that Bacon had this passage in mind when he wrote the " Essay of Gardens," which... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 570 էջ
...not.' — Shakespear alone could describe the effect of his own poetry. ' Oh, it came o'er the ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.' What we so much admire here is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been generally quoted,... | |
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