 | 1832 - 526 pagina’s
...Twelfth Night we all recollect: That ilraln again;—it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear lite the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. That these flowers were the most favourite ones of Shakipeare, there can be little doabt — Perditla... | |
 | Sir Adolphus Slade - 1833 - 300 pagina’s
...it is like going on a railway. After four or five evenings of intercourse, like, we may suppose, " The sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour," the lady (en gardon) put herself under the protection of the enamoured Briton, tripped with him nimbly... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1833 - 342 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... | |
 | John Auldjo - 1835 - 294 pagina’s
...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 him to descend without... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - 1835 - 406 pagina’s
...plaintive music to the perfume of Violets: — That strain again 1 —it had a dying fall I — Oh I it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes...upon a bank of Violets, Stealing and giving odour. Twelfth Night. It has a scent as though Love for its dower Had on it all bis odorous arrows tost; For,... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pagina’s
...illustrated, as in these few words of sweetness and melody, where Ihe author >ays of soft music— " Oh, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet South That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." ' ¡I the advocates for Ihe grand style object to this expression, we shall not stop lo defend it:... | |
 | Thomas Bridgeman - 1835 - 130 pagina’s
...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 thrown out the following sublime... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pagina’s
...illustrated, as in these few words of sweetness and melody, where the author says of soft music— " Oh, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet South That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." * If the advocates for the grand style object to this expression, we shall not stop to defend it; but,... | |
 | George Daniel - 1835 - 376 pagina’s
...which lives and breathes in the writings of Shakespeare ; that tender melancholy which comes o'er the ear— " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour"— are no where to be found in the pages of Jonson. He has no relish for such characters as Imogen, Julia,... | |
 | Thomas Bridgeman - 1835 - 172 pagina’s
...exquisitely sweet strain of music to the delicious scent of this flower : " O! it came o'er my car 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 thrown out the following... | |
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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. 
