...which lives and breathes in the writings of Shakespeare ; that tender melancholy which comes o'er the ear — " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour" — are no where to be found in the pages of Jonson. He has no relish for...

...the breath of wind upon the Violet ! That song again — it had a dying fall. О ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of Violets, Stealing and giving odour. The Violets from which the illustrative drawing was made, were the late-flowering...

...yet I know not. " Shakspeare alone could describe the effect of his own poetry : " O, It cane o'er my ains and husbandry : But come thy ways, we'll go along? togethe Stealing, and giving odour." "What we so much admire here is not the image of Patience on a monument,...

...Again ; in describing some delicious music that " had a dying fall," he says, " Oh ! it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets; Stealing and giving odour," Do you understand those lines exactly, Lauretta? LAURETTA — Oh! yes,...

...his own species in these lines: — 91 "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 odor," or lauded it as " Sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath."...

...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 odor ! — Enough, no more : "i 'is not so sweet now as it was before. Music is...

...and the opening of "Twelfth Night" : — 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. And with regard to Keats and Mr. Tennyson, there is no finer European Sufi...

...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...

...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." ¿ Not only does Shakespeare write about music ; he hears it, and fain would make his words more than...

...these two principles in verse forms the counterpart of the dying fall in music, which comes o'er the ear "like the sweet south that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour." When the wind blows over the bed it comes laden with the scent of other...