 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 552 pages
...not." — Shakespear alone could describe the effect of his own poetry. " Oh, it came o'er the ear Kke the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." What we so much admire here is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been generally quoted,... | |
 | 1829 - 612 pages
...surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — That strain ngaia ; it had a dying fall ; Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south. That breathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.' But I suppose you will be coming to me before the next... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...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 »weet south, • That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no... | |
 | 1819 - 188 pages
...Shakespenre compares an exquisitejy sweet strain of music, to the delicious scent of this flower — O! it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a '<.,i>k of vfole'i, Stealing and giving odour. There are several kinds of violet ; hut the fragrant... | |
 | 1820 - 608 pages
...that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying tall ; 0 it came o'er my ear like the sweet South, That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour :— In the same play there is a passage, on the same subject, of very different, but almost equal,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pages
...&c.] So, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona : " And now excess of it will make me surfeit" STEEVENS. 1 That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it...upon a bank of violets, STEALING, and giving odour.] Milton, in his Paradise Lost, b. iv. has very successfully introduced the same image : " now gentle... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1821 - 772 pages
...with voices which he almost believes he heard before. The cadence of the other, which " comes o'er the ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and gi\ing odour"- — or, perhaps, is more like that magic breath of aerial IUUSK which poets... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pages
...&c.] So, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona : " And now excess of it will make me surfeit." STEEVENS. 1 That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er ray ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, STEALING, and giving odour.] Milton,... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...bed. SHAKSPEABE compares an exquisitely sweet strain of music, to the delicious scent of this flower. O ! it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. There are several kinds of violets , but the fragrant (both blue and white) is the earliest, thence... | |
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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... 
