...will make me surfeit." STEEVENS. 1 That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er ray ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, STEALING, and giving odour.] Milton, in his Paradise Lost, b. iv. has very successfully introduced the same image : " now gentle...

...with voices which he almost believes he heard before. The cadence of the other, which " comes o'er the ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and gi\ing odour"- — or, perhaps, is more like that magic breath of aerial IUUSK which poets...

...that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and eo die. That strain again ;— it had a dying fall : 0. 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. 0 spirit of love, how quick and fresh...

...SHAKSPEABE compares an exquisitely 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 bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. There are several kinds of violets , but the fragrant (both blue and white) is the earliest, thence...

...Twelfth Night, relieving his melancholy with music, says : 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, 9leali«g and giving odour. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the...

...Twelfth Night, relieving his melancholy with music, says: 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. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the exclamation in a harsh and...

...surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : <), bought me lights as good cheap, at the dearest chandler's in Europe. I Enough ; no Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou...

...where the duke, listening to plaintive music, desires " 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." We are told, in the notes to Mr. Steevens' Edition of Shakspeare, that the Violet is an emblem of faithfulness...

...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...

...favourite Shakespeare, Twelfth Night at the beginning. 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. Thyer. 555. The idea is strongly implied in these lines of Jonson's Vision of Delight, a Masque presented...