 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 534 Seiten
...these few words of sweetness and melody, where the author says of soft music — O it came o'er my ear, like the sweet South That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. This is still finer, we think, than the noble speech on music in the Merchant of Venice, and only to... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1829 - 398 Seiten
...music to the perfume 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. Twelfth Night. In the soliloquy which the same bard gives us through Belisarius, in Cymbeline, he is... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1829 - 300 Seiten
...recalls to the mind the sweet image in Twelfth Night, i. 1. Music, the food of lore, is in Shakspeare the sweet south, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour. . . . wafting into the soul the delicious inspiration of the passion, which is by jEschylus compared... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 792 Seiten
...o'erlesp ; For in my way it lies. Id. Macbeth. That strain again ; it had a dying fall . O it came o'er my car, like the sweet South That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing and giving odouri. Id. Twelfth Night. I have two boys Seek Percy and thyself about the fir.ld... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1829 - 398 Seiten
...mind the iwevt ¡mage in Twelfth Nipht, i. 1. Music, the. food of love, is in Shakspcarc the siveet south, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour .... wafting ¡ uto the soul the delicious inspiration of the passion, which is by ^schylus compared... | |
 | Mrs. Grey (Elizabeth Caroline) - 1831 - 248 Seiten
...lines of Shakspeare would occur to her as applicable to her feelings, — " Oh ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet south " That breathes upon a bank of violets, " Stealing and giving odour !" However, Mrs. Seymour, even amidst all this happiness, could not stifle feelings of a most painful... | |
 | 802 Seiten
...PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS. " That strain again ! It had a dying fall : Ob, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour '." SHAKSPBARE. The star of Apollo brightly beams iu the ascendant. Talk as you will, you cannot, if... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 Seiten
...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 ; nc more ; 'Tit not so sweet now, as it was before. О spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
 | D. E. Williams - 1831 - 604 Seiten
...to the Colosseum. The moon was in her fullest splendor—the air as soft and balmy as Shakspeare's Like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." Two friends of the Prince who followed us, made up the only party at this scene of solitary grandeur... | |
 | William Howells - 1831 - 220 Seiten
...describe the melody ; but we will say with the inimitable bard of Ayon, that it came o'er his ear «' Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." His curiosity being naturally excited by the strains, (which proceeded from a meadow near at hand)... | |
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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... 
