| William Hazlitt - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...know not." — Shakspeare alone could describe the effect of his own poetry. " Oh, it came o'er the ear like 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,... | |
| 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 188
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...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 ; no more ; Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...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, in his Paradise Lost, b. iv. has very successfully introduced the same image : " now gentle... | |
| 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 772
...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... | |
| John Walker - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...of voice : thus the duke, in Shakspeare's Twelfth Night, relieving his melancholy with music, says : That strain again ! it had a dying fall ! Oh, it came...sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, 9leali«g and giving odour. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the... | |
| Thomas Gosden - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 80
...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 breathes...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and eo die. 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. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. 0 spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
| John Walker - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 406
...of voice: thus the Duke, in Shakspeare's Twelfth Night, relieving his melancholy with music, says: That strain again ! it had a dying fall ! Oh, it came...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the exclamation in a harsh and... | |
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