| Samuel Felton - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...plain. The lines in Twelfth Night we all recollect : 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. That these flowers were the most favourite ones of Shakspeare, there can be little doubt — Perditta... | |
| Mrs. Grey (Elizabeth Caroline) - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 248
...sweetest melody ; and those lines of Shakspeare would occur to her as applicable to her feelings, — " Oh ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet south " That...upon a bank of violets, " Stealing and giving odour !" However, Mrs. Seymour, even amidst all this happiness, could not stifle feelings of a most painful... | |
| عدد الصفحات: 802
...divilment.' ' PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS. " That strain again ! It had a dying fall : Ob, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour '." SHAKSPBARE. The star of Apollo brightly beams iu the ascendant. Talk as you will, you cannot, if... | |
| 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 248
...the most faithful friends of her parents. MUSIC. THAT strain again ;—it had a dying fall; —O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet South, That breathes...a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour!— THE DOVE SET FREE. BY T. W. KELLY. AH ! mother, mother ! tell me why My pretty turtle-dove So pensive... | |
| United States. 80th Cong., 2d sess., 1948. House, United States. Congress House - 1950 - عدد الصفحات: 120
...sympathy and condolence to Mrs. Bradley. As Shakespeare said: That strain again; It had a dying fall; Oh I It came o'er my ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. Mr. Speaker, we can well use the words of Halleck in our farewell to FRED... | |
| 1924 - عدد الصفحات: 978
...beginning with the beautiful opening of Twelfth Night : 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. Yet, somehow, the reflection arises that Shakespeare, much as he loved music, and beautiful as are... | |
| Joy Carden - 1980 - عدد الصفحات: 172
...about the event. "Bring music! stir the brooding air with an etherial breath." "That strain again! O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes...upon a bank of violets stealing and giving odour." Reader, were you at the concert on Friday? — If not, you have certainly lost a fine and rich repast... | |
| Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1979 - عدد الصفحات: 204
...closest inspection; they are fully personal while fully dramatic. The Duke opens the play If music be the food of love, play on: Give me excess of it,...sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odours. Enough ! no more, 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. (1.1.1-8) In... | |
| Eduard Hanslick - 1986 - عدد الصفحات: 152
...poetical personification of such musical hearing. He says: If music be the food of love, play on; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! And later, in Act II, he exclaims: Give me some music . . . Methought it did relieve my passion much... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...the Constitution and Course of Nature (1736). "Hamlet, \\.ii. 192. 20 Twelfth Night, I. i. 5-7: 'O, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south / That breathes...a bank of violets, / Stealing, and giving odour.' 21 The Lisbon earthquake of November 1755 devastated the city. 22 cf. James Boswell, The Journal of... | |
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