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... Table-talk; or, Original essays - Página 225por William Hazlitt - 1824Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Charles Swain - 1906 - 300 páginas
...heart that looked back when it left me Is the heart that seems fondest to me. SHAKESPEARE'S VIOLETS " Like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing and giving odour." WAKE, Violets ! — sweet Violets, see Who comes by Avon's stream ; The light of whose divinity Enshrines... | |
| Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1906 - 390 páginas
...billow upon billow, winding itself into the innermost cells of the soul! " Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." Illinois River. XI " You will excuse me if I do not strictly confine myself to narration, but now and... | |
| Harold Bayley - 1906 - 418 páginas
...me excess of it. " i Coifunatians. 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. In his Essay Of Gardens Bacon similarly links Flowers and Music. " The breath of flowers " he says... | |
| Evelyn Blantyre Simpson - 1908 - 268 páginas
...seek shelter in the woodland dells where " spunkies dance." The fragrant violets' scent recalls — " The sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." Its companion, the primrose, has become the badge of the Conservatives on the supposition that it was... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1908 - 200 páginas
...used synonymously. CRITICAL NOTES. ACT i., SCENE i. Page 30. O, it came o'er my far like the naeet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. — The original has sound instead of south. Pope, as is well known, substituted south, meaning, of... | |
| Temple Scott - 1909 - 348 páginas
...appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again; — it had a dying fall: Oh, it came o'er my ears 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." Woman and the beauty in woman were, perhaps,... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1910 - 254 páginas
...these few words of sweetness and melody, where the author says of soft music — O it came o'er my ear like the sweet South That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour ! This is still finer, we think, than the noble speech on Music in the Merchant of Venice, and only... | |
| Theodore Watts-Dunton - 1910 - 84 páginas
...the opening of "Twelfth Night" : — 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. And with regard to Keats and Mr. Tennyson, there is no finer European Sufi poetry than what we get... | |
| Sarah Julie Mary Suddard - 1912 - 356 páginas
...two principles in verse forms the counterpart of the dying fall in music, which comes o'er the ear "like the sweet south that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour." When the wind blows over the bed it comes laden with the scent of other blooms, transfuses it into... | |
| H. Crouch Batchelor - 1912 - 156 páginas
...false to any man." — Hamlet I. in. " 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." — Twelfth Night I. i. "Thatmajestical roof fretted with golden fire." — Hamlet II . ii. " I am... | |
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