...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! There are several kinds of Violets; but the fragrant both blue and white is the earliest, thence called...

...favourite Shakespeare, Twelfth Night at the beginning. That strain again, it had a dying /all ; 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...

...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. Mark it, Cesario ; it is old, and plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids...

...associations which are here assembled: " That strain again—it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er the ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour." We perceive, then, that there is a faculty of imagining objects and relations which we have never seen,—of...

...as fine a one in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the beginning, 158. —and whisper whence they stole like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets Stealing and giving odour. But much improved (as Dr. Greenwood remarks) by the addition of that beautiful metaphor 15$ included...

...after-years, and derive their sweetest perfume from the first heartfelt sigh of pleasure breathed upon them, " like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour !" If I have pleasure in a flower-garden, I have in a kitchen-garden too, and for the same reason....

...derive their sweetest perfume from the first heartfelt sigh of pleasure breathed upon them, — — " like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour ! " If I have pleasure in a flower-garden, I have in a kitchen-garden too, and for the same reason....

...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...no more; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou ! That notwithstanding thy capacity Recei veth as the...

...so din. — That strain again ! — it had a dying fell ; O, it came o'er rny ear like the sweetest south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing...no more, 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art tliou That notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the...

...had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. 0 spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou! That notwithstanding thy capacity . Stealing, and giving odour Enough ; no more ; Receiveth as the...