| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 pagina’s
...LXXXVII. A NNOTATIONS UPON TWELFTH NIGHT. ACT I. J Line 4. 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. ] Among the beauties of this eharming similitude, its exaft propriety is not the least. For, as a south... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pagina’s
...passage is undoubtedly taken from asfine a one in Shakspeare's Twelfth Night, at the beginning: —— like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. But much improved (as Dr. Greenwood remarks) by the addition of that beautiful metaphor, included in... | |
| John Walker - 1801 - 424 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, Stealing and giving odour. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the exclamation in a harsh and... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pagina’s
...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.—Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of... | |
| John Moore - 1803 - 308 pagina’s
...describe, but which Shakespeare expressed thus: " It comes over the heart as soft music does over the ear; Like the sweet south. That breathes upon a bank of violets. It is most fortunate for men to have hearts so framed that they derive pleasure from such recollections.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 408 pagina’s
...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. — Enough; 110 mo *Tis not so sweet now, a? it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art... | |
| 1804 - 444 pagina’s
...describe, but which Shakcspenre expressed thus :—" It comes over tlic heart as soft rausic does over the ear; • . " Like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets."' It is most fortunate for men to have hearts so framed that they derive pleasure from such recollections.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 410 pagina’s
...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.—Enough; no more; Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of... | |
| Henry Kett - 1805 - 340 pagina’s
...to the popular ballads of particular countries, such as Switzerland and Scotland. They come o'er the ear, like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour They show in the greatest degree the power of the association of ideas. They can awaken the lively... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pagina’s
...make me " surfeit." Lane 4. That strain again; it had a dying fall; O! it came o'er my ear, like tlie sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour ] Amongst the beauties of this charming similitude, its exact propriety is not the least. For, as a... | |
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