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
| Thomas Bridgeman - 1835 - 172 páginas
...exquisitely sweet strain of music to the delicious scent of this flower : " O ! it came o'er my car like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.'' The pious Hervey, in his admonitions to those who indulge in sloth, has thrown out the following sublime... | |
| Thomas Bridgeman - 1835 - 130 páginas
...exquisitely sweet strain of music to the delicious scent of this flower : " O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." The pious Hervey, in his admonitions to those who indulge in sloth, has thrown out the following sublime... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 páginas
...know not. " Shakspeare alone could describe the effect of his own poetry : " O, It cane o'er my ear and husbandry : But come thy ways, we'll go along? together ; And ere we have thy youth "What we so much admire here is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been so generally... | |
| Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 páginas
...breath of wind upon the Violet ! That song again — it had a dying fall. О ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of Violets, Stealing and giving odour. The Violets from which the illustrative drawing was made, were the late-flowering variety, the leaves... | |
| Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 368 páginas
...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." -f- " AVhatsoever is harmonically composed, delights in harmony : for even that vulgar and tavern music,... | |
| 1836 - 744 páginas
...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 - 246 páginas
...; in describing some delicious music that " had a dying fall," he says, " Oh ! it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets; Stealing and giving odour," Do you understand those lines exactly, Lauretta? LAURETTA — Oh! yes, dear aunt. The south wind, which... | |
| Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 páginas
...the breath of wind upon the Violet ! That song 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. The Violets from which the illustrative drawing was made, were the late flowering variety, the leaves... | |
| R. T. Claridge - 1837 - 268 páginas
...the kind to be seen. The " concord of sweet sounds," too, is now often heard, " Coming o'er the ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." It was formerly the custom, when any great personage received a visit, to have presented to him a pipe... | |
| John Quincy Adams - 1837 - 76 páginas
...spicy gales of Araby the blest, your Constitution, with WASHINGTON at its head, " Came o'er our ears like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." And what, under that Constitution, still the supreme law of the land, is the condition of your country... | |
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