 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...thus the Duke, in Shakspeare's 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... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...play 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, Stealing, and giving odour! There are several kinds... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...Duke, in Shakspeare's Twelfth 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 breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." This example of exclamation... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 296 pages
...play 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 hreathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.' But I suppose you will... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1832 - 498 pages
...play 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, Stealing, and giving odour." But I suppose you will... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - Flower language - 1835 - 406 pages
...compares the soft strains of plaintive music to the perfume of Violets : — That strain again I — 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. Twelfth Night. It has... | |
 | M. H. Cowell - Plants - 1839 - 140 pages
...strain of plaintive music to the perfume of violets. (Twelfth Night, Act 1. Scene 1.) " That strain again ! — it had a dying fall ; Oh ' it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, T liat breathes upon a liank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." 540 tricolor f Pansy... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 528 pages
...to 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... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1840 - 448 pages
...violet 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 the sweet south That breathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing and giving odours." Perhaps of the various... | |
 | Album - 1841 - 158 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, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more... | |
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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 before. 
