...one who, from his birth, has loved music as the soother of grief, and on whose ear it comes " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour," Saltzburg recalled the name of two of the master spirits of that enchanting art, one of whom left an...

...bewitched out of our very senses, 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. Truly, I see nothing of this superlative excellence about it, where all its lineaments appear dark...

...billow upon billow, winding itself into the innermost cells of the soul [ " Oh, it eamc o'er my ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." Elinois River. XL " You will excuse me if I do not strictly confine myself to narjation, but ROW and...

...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...

...where the Duke exclaims: — (A) " 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." • - » , ' <-» LXI / k cii- • f\. • \ / I have little doubt that Bacon had this passage in mind...

...where the Duke exclaims: — " 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." I have little doubt that Bacon had this passage in mind when he wrote the " Essay of Gardens," which...

...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 ! " Shakespeare makes the duke sigh in " Twelfth Night." In Shakespeare the sense of union between...

...the breeze snatches perfumes from their very beds," ie the flower beds (Bhagavad-G'ita), and " Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour" (Twelfth Night, I. i. 5-7). 159. As, when, etc. Compare n. 636-642. These similes are indications of...

...where the Duke exclaims : — " 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." I have little doubt that Bacon had this passage in mind when he wrote the " Essay of Gardens," which...

...not.' — Shakespear alone could describe the effect of his own poetry. ' Oh, it came o'er the ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.' What we so much admire here is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been generally quoted,...