 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...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 Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...after-years, and 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.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...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.... | |
 | Benjamin Maund - 1824 - 264 pages
...Duke enraptured with a sweet strain of music, saying " That strain again — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." SHAKSPEARE. The shrubby Violet now figured, does not agree... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 492 pages
...appetite may sicken, and so die. [Music.] That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'crjny ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odours. — [Music.] Enough ; no more ; [He rises. 'Tis not so sweet now, as it... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | Constantine Henry Phipps Marquess of Normanby - 1825 - 322 pages
...music. The same singers, and even the same sounds, have not the same effect when heard elsewhere — " That strain again ! it had a dying fall. Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathe* upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." This speaks the same feeling in regard... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler - 1825 - 356 pages
...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, 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. 0 spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou! That notwithstanding... | |
 | 1825 - 668 pages
...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... | |
 | M M. Busk - 1825 - 972 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
