 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 breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing...  Twelfth night. Winter's tale - Sida 5efter William Shakespeare - 1788Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1836 - 744 sidor
...present and incarnate in the music; no • " 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." ta Whatsoever is harmonically composed, delights in harmony : for even that vulgar and tavern music,... | |
 | 1837 - 574 sidor
...readers with a feast of melody,— Of music,— " 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;"— a horse-laugh— " The large Achilles, on his press'd bed lolling, From his deep chest laughs out a... | |
 | 1924 - 978 sidor
...with the beautiful opening of Twelfth Night : 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. Yet, somehow, the reflection arises that Shakespeare, much as he loved music, and beautiful as are... | |
 | Joy Carden - 1980 - 172 sidor
...event. "Bring music! stir the brooding air with an etherial breath." "That strain again! O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets stealing and giving odour." Reader, were you at the concert on Friday? — If not, you have certainly lost a fine and rich repast... | |
 | Eduard Hanslick - 1986 - 152 sidor
...personification of such musical hearing. He says: If music be the food of love, play on; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! And later, in Act II, he exclaims: Give me some music . . . Methought it did relieve my passion much... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley - 1993 - 260 sidor
...Constitution and Course of Nature (1736). "Hamlet, \\.ii. 192. 20 Twelfth Night, I. i. 5-7: 'O, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south / That breathes...a bank of violets, / Stealing, and giving odour.' 21 The Lisbon earthquake of November 1755 devastated the city. 22 cf. James Boswell, The Journal of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 220 sidor
...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 giving odour. Enough, no more! Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity ,„ Receiveth as... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 sidor
...(Orsino's longing for music) 4 fait cadence 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! 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, 10 That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as... | |
 | John Izard Middleton, Lynn Robertson - 1997 - 236 sidor
...to the Colosseum. The moon was in her fullest splendor — the air as soft and balmy as Shakspeare's "Like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." Two friends of the Prince who followed us, made up the only party at this scene of solitary grandeur;... | |
 | André Green - 1999 - 404 sidor
...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 giving odour . . ....Enough! No more! 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou. That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the... | |
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