| Ann Radcliffe - 1826 - 336 Seiten
...commanded by Shakspeare's wand, and to which his words might have been applied. " O ! it came o'er mine ear, like the sweet south, that breathes upon a bank of violets," It was the music of French-horns, sweetened by distance and by the water, over which it passed, accompanied... | |
| Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1826 - 366 Seiten
...commanded by Shakspeare's wand, and to which his words might have been applied. " 0! it came o'er mine ear, like the sweet south, that breathes upon a bank of violets." It was the music of Frenchhorns, sweetened by distance and by the water, over which it passed, accompanied... | |
| Elizabeth Isabella Spence - 1827 - 972 Seiten
...he rapturously exclaimed, as he attempted to take her hand, I would say — " 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." Twelfth Night. Rebecca coloured, and silently withdrew her hand. It was the first compliment she had... | |
| Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1827 - 696 Seiten
...the windows under which, should all open as French sashes down to the floor, and which facing •• the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour," should be a wide gravel walk, as yellow and as smooth as a Limerick glove ; then a lawn, as level and... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 392 Seiten
...that do lie too deep for tears." In its very name there is delightful music, and it comes o'er his ear Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odours : There was, — or at least I imagined there was, — something of all... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 Seiten
...Night, relieving his melancholy with music, exclaims : " That strain again ! it had a dying fall ! Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." This example of exclamation from Shakspeare, expresses rapture — unexpected, lively delight. The... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 Seiten
...illustrated as in these few words of sweetness and melody, where the author says of soft music— O it came o'er my ear, like the sweet South That breathes...upon a bank of violets. Stealing and giving odour. This is still finer, we think, than the noble speech on music in the Merchant of Venice, and only to... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1828 - 522 Seiten
...illustrated as in these few words of sweetness and melody, where the author says of soft music— O it came o'er my ear, like the sweet South That breathes...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. This is still finer, we think, than the noble speech on music in the Merchant of Venice, and only to... | |
| Henry Phillips - 1829 - 398 Seiten
...strains of plaintive music to the perfume of Violets — 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. In the soliloquy which the same bard gives us through Belisarius, in Cymbeline, he is... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 462 Seiten
...down, or else o'erleap ; For in my way it lies. Id. Uacbeth. That strain again ; it had a dying fait. O it came o'er my ear, like the sweet South That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing and giving odours. Id. Twelfth ffiyhl. I have two boys Peek Percy and thyself about the field... | |
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