 | Almanacs, English - 1832 - 498 pages
...that, 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 of violets, Stealing, and giving odour." But I suppose you will be coming to me before the next twelve hours are... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 524 pages
...in Twelfth Night we all recollect: That strain a»uin ;- if had a dyinu fall : O , it came o'er ray ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, {Stealing and giving odour. That these flowers were the most favourite ones of Shakspeare, there can... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — That strain again; — it had a dying fall: Q@wF M O M Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of... | |
 | William Godwin - 1833 - 966 pages
...violence, so little did she resemble the creatures of this common earth. Her voice, which was all soul, came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing, and giving odour. When she opened her lips, I dared not so much as breathe. " Silence was... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1833 - 332 pages
...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... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1833 - 330 pages
...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 404 pages
...dying fall, to the sweet south breathing on a bank of violets. 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. Twetfth Night. The elysian fields, those sweet regions of poetry, are adorned... | |
 | Sophia Lee, Harriet Lee - 1834 - 496 pages
...CANTERBURY TALES. THE TRAVELLER'S TALE. MONTFORD. That strain again !'— It had a dying fall : Oht it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. SIIAKSPEARE. HKN-HY DE MONTFORD was of an illustrious birth, an ample fortune,... | |
 | Thomas Bridgeman - Floriculture - 1835 - 130 pages
...Shakspeare compares an 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... | |
 | John Auldjo - Greece - 1835 - 300 pages
...where he makes one of his characters exclaim : — " 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 ! " After following the Prince to the top of the Giant's Mountain, we allowed... | |
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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. — 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,... 
