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 - Seite 5von William Shakespeare - 1788Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again : — it had a <lying fall : O, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon...; 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 Recciveth as the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 Seiten
...know not."— Sliakespear 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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 358 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 Seiten
...know not." — Shakspeare 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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 Seiten
...sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the »weet south, • That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing,...no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. О spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou ! That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receivcth as the... | |
| 1820 - 608 Seiten
...surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying tall ; 0 it came o'er my ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour :— In the same play there is a passage, on the same subject, of very different, but almost equal,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 Seiten
...excess of it will make me surfeit" STEEVENS. 1 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.] Milton, in his Paradise Lost, b. iv. has very successfully introduced the same image : " now gentle... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 Seiten
...will make me surfeit." STEEVENS. 1 That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er ray ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, STEALING, and giving odour.] Milton, in his Paradise Lost, b. iv. has very successfully introduced the same image : " now gentle... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 Seiten
...surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and eo die. That strain again ;— it had a dying fall : 0. it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon...before. 0 spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou ! That notwithstanding thy capacity Received! as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity' and... | |
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