...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 upon a bank of violets, / Stealing, and giving odour.' 21 The Lisbon earthquake of November 1755 devastated the city. 22 cf....

...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 odors." TWELFTH NIGHT, Act i. 1. Carew wrote, in 1630, a little poem on " Celia...

...of fancy, as he had for a moment supposed; and he involuntarily exclaimed— "O, it came o'er mine ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets— Stealing and giving odour." 1 His dog, too, gave evident signs of hearing something unusual, ran from...

...beheld; and answered in a voice, the tones of which, even in that snowy wilderness, " Came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets." The most obvious mode of making ourselves useful was evidently to procure some of those fur-wraps and...

...these lines of Shakespeare's as motto: "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.' "Yes! In spite...