| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pagina’s
...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, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. О spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
| 1820 - 608 pagina’s
...that, 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 pagina’s
...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...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pagina’s
...The Two Gentlemen of Verona : " And now excess of it will make me surfeit" STEEVENS. 1 That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
| 1821 - 772 pagina’s
...with voices which he almost believes he heard before. The cadence of the other, which " comes o'er the ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and gi\ing odour"- — or, perhaps, is more like that magic breath of aerial IUUSK which poets... | |
| Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pagina’s
...bed. SHAKSPEABE 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...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. There are several kinds of violets , but the fragrant (both blue and white) is the earliest, thence... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 pagina’s
...that, 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 a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. 0 spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
| John Walker - 1822 - 404 pagina’s
...Twelfth Night, relieving his melancholy with music, says : 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, 9leali«g and giving odour. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the... | |
| 1865 - 1194 pagina’s
...would have to be multiplied by millions to bring them up to the tension of ordinary air." Thus — " the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour," owes its sweetness to an agent which, though almost infinitely attenuated, nay be more potent as an... | |
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