 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 sivua
...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. NATURAL AFFECTION ALLIED TO LOVE. O, she, that hath a heart of that fine frame, To pay this debt of... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 sivua
...Shakespeare, Twelfth Night at the beginning. 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. Thyer. 555. The idea is strongly implied in these lines of Jonson's Vision of Delight, a Masque presented... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 sivua
...appetite may sicken, and so die. 'hat strain again ; — it had a dying fall : 0> H came o'er ray 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 itwas before. (' spirit of lovr, how quick andfresh... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 sivua
...derive their sweetest perfume from the first heartfelt sigh of pleasure breathed upon them, — — " like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour ! " If I have pleasure in a flower-garden, I have in a kitchen-garden too, and for the same reason.... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 sivua
...associations which are here assembled: " That strain again—it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er the ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour." We perceive, then, that there is a faculty of imagining objects and relations which we have never seen,—of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 sivua
...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 ; DO more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, bow quick and fresh... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 sivua
...undoubtedly taken from as fine a one in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the beginning, like the roeet 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 only in one... | |
 | 1825 - 668 sivua
...it lhat it put me in mind of my school-boy days, and of the large bunch VOL. EX. No. 60.— 1826. 18 of lilac that I used to send as a present to my partner...not " like poppies spread , You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like ihe snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or... | |
 | M M. Busk - 1825 - 972 sivua
...resemblance to the wooing, which, from the lips of Lionel Gressingholme, had " Come o'er her heart like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour;" that two or three suitors, even military heroes, had been for some time assiduously paying their addresses... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 508 sivua
...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... | |
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DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. 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... 
