| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 str.
...The appetite may sicken, and so die That strain again ;--it had a dying fall : O, it camic 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 art... | |
| George Keate - 1790 - 388 str.
...Shakspeare says of soft melody : " 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." And Milton, in one of his early poems, says : — * Alison " On Taste," pp. 152, 174. " And ever against... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 str.
...fine passage is undoubtedly taken from asfine a one in Shakspeare's Twelfth Night, at the beginning: - 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, included in... | |
| John Walker - 1801 - 424 str.
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 str.
...The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again; — it had a dying fall: O, it caifle 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 art... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 str.
...excess of it will make me " surfeit." Line 4. 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 ] Amongst the beauties of this charming similitude, its exact propriety is not the least. For, as a... | |
| John Moore - 1803 - 308 str.
...describe, but which Shakespeare expressed thus : " It comes over the heart as soft music does over the ear ; Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets. It is most fortunate for men to have hearts so framed that they derive pleasure from such recollections.... | |
| John Moore - 1803 - 320 str.
...to describe, but which Shakespeare expressed thus: " It comes over the heart as soft music does over the ear ; • Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets. It is most fortunate for men to have hearts so framed that they derive pleasure from such recollections.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 408 str.
...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 ; 110 more; •Tis not so swctt now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh... | |
| 1804 - 444 str.
...describe, but which Shakespeare expressed thus : — " It comes over the heart us soft music does over the ear ; • • " Like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets.'" It b most fortunate for men to have hearts so framed that they derive pleasure from such recollections.... | |
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