 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 614 页
...I. An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords ; Musicians attending. Duke. If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it...and so die. That strain again ;— it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,1 That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing,... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 页
...Illyria are more uniformly saddened by it. Orsino sounds this note in the play's opening speech: If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it,...sicken, and so die. 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... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - 2002 - 368 页
...divides, setting the stage for reunion and joy. Twelfth Night takes us to a world of music : If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it,...sicken and so die. 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 页
...as night And his affections dark as Erebus; Let no such man be trusted. Lorenzo — MV Vi If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it,...sicken, and so die. 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... | |
 | Sourcebooks, Inc Staff - 2002 - 388 页
...love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it,...that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. —William Shakespeare WhenSOUL meets SOUL on lovers' lips. — Percy Bysshe Shellc] The Summer hath... | |
 | Jean Ashworth Bartle - 2003 - 288 页
...the King of all the earth; sing ye praises with understanding. Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene I If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it,...sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ears like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing and... | |
 | Henry James - 2003 - 276 页
...suggested. 2. (p. 46) 'dying fair. Lingering cadence. 3. (p. 46) spoil. 4. (p. 47) Mrs Siddons. If music be the food of love, play on: Give me excess of it,...sicken and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall; (Twelfth Night I. '-4) It is revealed later that Aspern composed some memorable love-lyrics.... | |
 | Alexander Chisholm Gooden, Cambridge University Library - 2003 - 246 页
...one of the Carbonari, which from what I hear, contains stories of ' ' If music be the food oflove, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The...sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall . . . Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene I ' ' An ironical phrase: apparently popularised... | |
 | Theocritus Junior - 2003 - 281 页
...though music oft hath such a charm To make bad good, and good provoke to harm." And again— " If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it,...surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again;—it had a dying fall; Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank... | |
 | David Damrosch - 2003 - 344 页
...inventing a new English. In one scene, H. Hatterr's best friend urges him to come to a concert: "If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it! ... The festival will be grand entertainment for you. It will make you forget your present predicament.... | |
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If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. 
