 | Floral poesy - 1875 - 360 páginas
...Twelfth Night," where the Duke, listening to plaintive music, desires " 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 employs his beloved flower... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1876 - 1140 páginas
...which refers, in the "Twelfth Night," to this much admired flower : — 'That strain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, Tint breathes upon a bank of violets, Siualing and giving odour 1 " The violet has long been employed,... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1877 - 294 páginas
...ones. It is the sentimental Duke in " Twelfth Night " who exclaims — " 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 odor " — just such a bank as may be seen... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 236 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... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 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 so sweet... | |
 | James Hinton - 1880 - 570 páginas
...himself. In " Twelfth Night," Shakspeare makes the duke say of music, — " 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." So, again, Lord Bacon, in his essay... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 páginas
...ftfo it, act ii. sc. 7. Your If is the only peacemaker. !';. act v. sc. 4. 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 ! />.//"//< Night, act i. sc. 1. She... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden - 1881 - 984 páginas
...whisper, fine and true, almost a shadowy sound, a fairy tone by moonlight: " That »train again ; II 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 odor." There is a whole realm of part-songs... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1909 - 348 páginas
...the allusion to it which he makes to his own species in these lines : — "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 odor," or landed it as "Sweeter than the... | |
 | J. McD. Scott - 1883 - 104 páginas
...Give me 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 odor." his words are " musical as is Apollo's... | |
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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. 
