 | Frederic Shoberl - 1835 - 406 páginas
...the soft strains of plaintive music to the 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... | |
 | M. H. Cowell - 1839 - 140 páginas
...music to the perfume of violets. (Twelfth Night, Act 1. Scene 1.) " That strain again ! — it had a dying fall ; Oh ' it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, T liat breathes upon a liank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." 540 tricolor f Pansy 5. 8. yp... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1840 - 448 páginas
...dew. We are all acquainted with Shakspeare's beautiful comparison : — " That strain again — 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 odours." Perhaps of the various etymologies... | |
 | 1840 - 528 páginas
...The most beautiful displays of Fancy are to be found in Shakspeare — " 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. " Or those still more touching lines... | |
 | Album - 1841 - 158 páginas
...excess of it ; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — 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. — Enough ; no more ; , Tis not... | |
 | Lucy Hooper - 1842 - 304 páginas
...CORNWALL. -steals timidly away, Shrinking as Violets do in summer's ray. 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. TWELFTH NIGHT. TO AN EARLY VIOLET.... | |
 | 1843 - 592 páginas
...the past. In the following passage Shakspere displays his Fancy : — " 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." Now this " dying strain" affords... | |
 | Tales - 1844 - 946 páginas
...excess of it ; — that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. 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." SHAKSPEARE. As the wild pathos of... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1844 - 790 páginas
...imagination aud illustration and the gracefulness of the expression : — " 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 gdour '."—Twelfth Nighu and sorrow. We... | |
 | 1844 - 276 páginas
...exquisitely sweet strain of music to the delicious scent of this flower : — That song 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. The flowers of Spring have been favourite... | |
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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 !— Enough ; no more ; ( 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. 
