 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1840 - 448 pages
...dropping dew. We are all acquainted with Shakspeare's beautiful comparison : — " That strain again — it had a dying fall; Oh! it came o'er my ear, like...breathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing and giving odours." Perhaps of the various etymologies assigned to the name, that may be truest which derives... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 528 pages
...compare it." The most beautiful displays of Fancy are to be found in Shakspeare — " 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. " Or those still more touching lines — " She never told... | |
 | Album - 1841 - 158 pages
...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 odour. — Enough ; no more ; , Tis not so sweet now as it was... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 472 pages
...diction, which can only spring out of deep poetic emotion, may be found in the poetic prose of Sidney. " Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor." Shaka. Twelfth-Night, act 1, sc. i. " And sweeter than... | |
 | Reginald Ramsden Buckley, Mary Neal - Folk art - 1911 - 298 pages
...on ; 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." 94 Not only does Shakespeare write about music ; he hears it, and fain would make... | |
 | H. Crouch Batchelor - 1912 - 156 pages
...canst not then be false to any man." — Hamlet I. in. " 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." — Twelfth Night I. i. "Thatmajestical roof fretted with... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 552 pages
...I 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 hank 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,... | |
 | James Stalker - 1913 - 316 pages
...on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again I it had a dying fall. Oh it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! Enough, no more ; Tis not so... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1965 - 62 pages
...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.... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - Dramatists, English - 1916 - 228 pages
...lovers to soothe his sorrow.7 Listen — If music be the food of love, play on. That strain again! it had a dying fall: Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets Stealing and giving odors. ... — Twelfth Night, I, i,... | |
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DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear... 
