 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 Radcliffe - 1826 - 336 pagina’s
...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 - 1826 - 366 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - 1827 - 972 pagina’s
...being, he rapturously 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...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pagina’s
...that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so 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. NATURAL AFFECTION ALLIED TO LOVE. O, she, that hath a heart of that fine frame, To pay this debt of... | |
 | Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1827 - 696 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 534 pagina’s
...illustrated as in these few words of sweetness and melody, where the author says of soft music — O it came o'er my ear, like the sweet South That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. This is still finer, we think, than the noble speech on music in the Merchant of Venice, and only to... | |
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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, Stealing... 
