 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 heirs of Villeroy - Page 20by Henrietta Rouvière Mosse - 1806Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 lehte
...into Elysium ? I know not how it was ; but it came over the sense with a power not to be resisted, " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." I mention these things to shew, as I think, that pleasures are not " Like poppies spread, You seize... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 lehte
...into Elysium ? I know not how it was ; but it came over the sense with a power not to be resisted, " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." I mention these things to shew, as I think, that pleasures are not " Like poppies spread, You seize... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 lehte
...into Elysium ?, I know not how it was ; but it came over the sense with a power not to be resisted, " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." I mention these things to shew, as I think, that pleasures are not " Like poppies spread, You seize... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1826 - 334 lehte
...commanded by Shakspeare's wand, and to which his words might have been applied. " O ! it came o'er mine ear, like the sweet south, that breathes upon a bank of violets," It was the music of French-horns, sweetened by distance and by the water, over which it passed, accompanied... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1826 - 338 lehte
...may'sicken, and so die. — [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 odours. — [Music. Enough ; no more ; [llises. 'Tis not so sweet now as it was... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1826 - 366 lehte
...commanded by Shakspeare's wand, and to which his words might have been applied. " 0! it came o'er mine ear, like the sweet south, that breathes upon a bank of violets." It was the music of Frenchhorns, sweetened by distance and by the water, over which it passed, accompanied... | |
 | Ann Radcliffe - 1826 - 336 lehte
...commanded by Shakspeare's wand, and to which his words might have been applied. " O ! it came o'er mine ear, like the sweet south, that breathes upon a bank of violets," It was the music of French-horns, sweetened by distance and by the water, over which it passed, accompanied... | |
 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - 1827 - 972 lehte
...exclaimed, as he attempted to take her hand, I would say — " 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." Twelfth Night. Rebecca coloured, and silently withdrew her hand. It was the first compliment she had... | |
 | Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1827 - 696 lehte
...the windows under which, should all open as French sashes down to the floor, and which facing •• the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour," should be a wide gravel walk, as yellow and as smooth as a Limerick glove ; then a lawn, as level and... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 392 lehte
...that do lie too deep for tears." In its very name there is delightful music, and it comes o'er his ear Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odours : There was, — or at least I imagined there was, — something of all... | |
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