 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 360 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 ; no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. О spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
 | Sarah Harriet Burney - 1817 - 294 pagina’s
...seated himself, " I thought, not long since, that I heard the sound of music, stealing . . o'er ray ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets. " Who was the fair harmonist ? and why have her syren strains so speedily ceased ?" ,\. Geraldine smiled,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 358 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 love, how quick and fresh... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pagina’s
...know not."— Shakspeare alone could describe the effect of bis own poetry. " Ob, it came o'er the ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." What we so much admire here, is not the image .of Patience on a monument, which has been generally... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pagina’s
...know not."— Shakspeare alone could describe the effect of his own poetry. " Oh, it came o'er the ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." What we so much admire here, is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been generally quoted,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 552 pagina’s
...not."— Shakespear alone could describe the effect of his own poetry. " Oh, it came o'er the ear Kke the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." What we so much admire here is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been generally quoted,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pagina’s
...now excess of it will make me surfeit." STEEVENS. * 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.] Milton, in his Paradise Lost, b. iv. has very successfully introduced the same image: " now gentle... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pagina’s
...And now excess of it will make me surfeit." STEEVENS. * 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.] Milton, in his Paradise Lost, b. iv. has very successfully introduced the same image : " Fanning their... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1821 - 382 pagina’s
...upon the narrative, and the charms of friendship and affection so delicately flowing through it, " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour," fled as the connexion between the historian and the subject was changed, and the bond between the brothers... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 764 pagina’s
...he almost believes he heard before. The cadence of the other, which - " comes o'er the ear like die sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour " — or, perhaps, is more like that magic breath of aerial music which poets hear, or dream they hear,... | |
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had a dying fall ; О it came o'er my ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing and giving odour. 
