...popular ballads of particular countries, such as Switzerland and Scotland. They come o'er the car, 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...

...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....

...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...

...justly-beloved child, from the kindest and tenderest of parents. c\3 CHAP. CHAP. II " Oh ! it came o'er her ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets ; - Stealing and giving odour." JL HE morning sun had shot his lucid beams above the hills, and breaking through the aperture of the...

...tuild pathetic sweetness, at the natural and simple melody of many of our Scotish songs. That ftrain again, it had a dying fall ; Oh ! it came o'er my ear like the fweet fouth, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. ( f) I deliver this...

...more than eace betrayed him into tears and myself into sadness, by sounds which came **• " o'er his ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets." Two or three songs of Horace's are now locked up; and the baronet is contented with being roused to...

...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...

...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." Twelfth Night, act 1. tc. 1. Lord Bacon, in the following passage, makes the very same comparison....

...love, play on; Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. [Music. That strain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh, it came...upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. [Music. Enough — no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and...

...he -"seated'himself, " I 'thought, not'Jong since, ! *hat 4 heard the-sound *t)f * mttsic, -stealing o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets. << Who was the fair ihaft&fti&t ? -find have her syfefl strains so speedily ceased ?" Geraldine smiled,...