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" 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 Metropolitan - Page 354
1848
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...relieving his melancholy with music, says: 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 giving odour. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : <), it came o'er my s as good cheap, at the dearest chandler's in Europe. I Stealing, and giving odour.— Enough ; no Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love,...
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Flora Domestica: Or, The Portable Flower-garden : with Directions for the ...

Elizabeth Kent - 1823 - 498 pages
...listening to plaintive music, desires " 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." We are told, in the notes to Mr. Steevens' Edition of Shakspeare, that...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pages
...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. — Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit...
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The British Theatre: Or, A Collection of Plays, which are Acted at ..., Volume 9

Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 492 pages
...appetite may sicken, and so die. [Music.] That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'crjny ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odours. — [Music.] Enough ; no more ; [He rises. 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. Cur. Will you go...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...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 breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; DO more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, Part 1

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying f all : 0, 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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...Shakespeare, Twelfth Night at the beginning. 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. Thyer. 555. The idea is strongly implied in these lines of Jonson's Vision...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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 breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. Mark it, Cesario ; it is old, and plain : The spinsters and the knitters...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...appetite may sicken, and 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 giving odour! There are several kinds of Violets; but the fragrant both blue and white...
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