...know not."— Sliakespear 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,...

...saying, aa he seated himself, " I thought, not long since, that I heard the sound of music, stealing o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets. " Who was the fair harmonist ? and why have her syren strains so speedily ceased ?" Geraldine smiled,...

...in softest accents of Cockaigne, the superlative claim of choral shows in Exeter Hall— " That roar again, it had a dying fall. Oh ! it came o'er my ear like the rnde north, That lmr.su upon a hank of violets." Bowring and Hume did, certes, pull together once in...

...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...

...Give me excess of it ; thar, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — That strain ngaia ; 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 odour.' But I suppose you will be coming to me before the next...

...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,...

...not." — Shakespear alone could describe the effect of his own poetry. " Oh, it came o'er the ear Kke 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,...

...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...

...sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the »weet south, • That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. О spirit of love, how quick and fresh...

...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...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, beauty....