 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 Seiten
...LXXXVII. A NNOTJT1ONS UPON TWELFTH NIGHT. ACT I. Unt 4. THAT strain again ; it had a dying fall: 0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing, and giving odour. ] Among the beauties of this eharming similitude, its exaft propriety is... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 Seiten
...from association.* Shakspeare says of soft melody : " That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : 0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." And Milton, in one of his early poems, says : — * Alison " On Taste,"... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 Seiten
...Twelfth Night, relieving his melancholy with music, says : That strain again! 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. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 Seiten
...Verona. " And now excess of it will make me " surfeit." Line 4. 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 ] Amongst the beauties of this charming similitude, its exact propriety... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 Seiten
...surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again; — it had a dying fall: O, it caifle 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... | |
 | John Moore - 1803 - 320 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | John Moore - 1803 - 308 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 408 Seiten
...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 ; 110 more; •Tis not so swctt now, as it was before. O spirit... | |
 | 1804 - 444 Seiten
...describe, but which Shakespeare expressed thus : — " It comes over the heart us soft music does over the ear ; • • " Like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets.'" It b most fortunate for men to have hearts so framed that they derive pleasure from such recollections.... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 Seiten
...spring, that sighs on the hunter's ear, when he awakens from dreams oí joy." Twelfth Night, A. i. S. 1. O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, joy, and has heard the music of the spirits of the hill !" Merchant of Venice, A. iii. S. 2. Such it... | |
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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,... 
