| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 páginas
...sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my car like the siveet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; "Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. 0 spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
| 1832 - 206 páginas
...of the metamorphosed lo, is too poetical to be forgotten. SIR JE SMITH. O IT came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of Violets, Stealing and giving odour. TIFSLTTH NICBT. YET marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell, It fell upon a little western flower, Before... | |
| 1832 - 524 páginas
...Twelfth Night we all recollect: That strain a»uin ;- if had a dyinu fall : O , it came o'er ray ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, {Stealing and giving odour. That these flowers were the most favourite ones of Shakspeare, there can be little doubi --IVnlillu... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 páginas
...may sicken, and so die. — That strain again; — it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like w3 Hu3 — Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
| William Godwin - 1833 - 304 páginas
...she resemble the creatures of this common earth. Her voice, which was all soul, came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing, and giving odour. When she opened her lipsj I dared not so much as breathe. "Silence was took, ere it was ware." There... | |
| 1834 - 404 páginas
...breathing on a bank of violets. 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. Twetfth Night. The elysian fields, those sweet regions of poetry, are adorned with all that fancy can... | |
| Sophia Lee, Harriet Lee - 1834 - 496 páginas
...TRAVELLER'S TALE. MONTFORD. That strain again !'— It had a dying fall : Oht it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. SIIAKSPEARE. HKN-HY DE MONTFORD was of an illustrious birth, an ample fortune, and endowed with all... | |
| Frederic Shoberl - 1835 - 406 páginas
...perfume of Violets : — That strain again I — it had a dying fall ! — Oh ! 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 his odorous arrows tost ;... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,... | |
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