 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 σελίδες
...of soft music to 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... | |
 | 1837 - 276 σελίδες
...Shakspeare compares an exqulsitelf sweet strain of music t» the delicious «eat of this flowe : " О ; it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violeta, Stealing and giving odour." The pioua Hervey, in his admonitions to those who indulge in alotb,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 σελίδες
...— and yet I know not. " Shakspeare alone could describe the effect of his own poetry : " O, It cane ll thy pains and husbandry : But come thy ways, we'll go along? togethe Stealing, and giving odour." "What we so much admire here is not the image of Patience on a monument,... | |
 | 1837 - 574 σελίδες
...my readers with a feast of melody,— Of 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 odour;"— a horse-laugh— " The large Achilles, on his press'd bed lolling,... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - 1838 - 280 σελίδες
...wave, surge after surge, 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." Elinois River^ XI. " You will excuse me if I do not strictly confine myself... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 σελίδες
...; 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 and giving odour. 4 — i. 1. 300 Love is like a child, That longs for every thing that he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 σελίδες
...that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, when the b` 1 Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit... | |
 | George Burges - 1838 - 142 σελίδες
...respond, as if we were bewitched out of our very senses, 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. Truly, I see nothing of this superlative excellence about it, where all... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - 1838 - 306 σελίδες
...after surge, billow upon billow, winding itself into the innermost cells of the soul [ " Oh, it eamc o'er my ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." Elinois River. XL " You will excuse me if I do not strictly confine myself... | |
 | M. H. Cowell - 1839 - 140 σελίδες
...compares the soft strain of plaintive music to the perfume of violets. (Twelfth Night, Act 1. Scene 1.) " That strain again ! — it had a dying fall ; Oh ' it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, T liat breathes upon a liank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." 540 tricolor f Pansy 5. 8. yp... | |
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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... 
