...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....

...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...

...Duke enraptured with a sweet strain of music, saying " That strain again — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a hank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." SHAKSPEARE. The shrubby Violet now figured, does not agree...

...appetite may sicken, and so die. [Music.] That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'crjny ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odours. — [Music.] Enough ; no more ; [He rises. 'Tis not so sweet now, as it...

...undoubtedly taken from as fine a one in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the beginning, like the roeet 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 only in one...

...that, 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. — Enough ; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh...

...music. The same singers, and even the same sounds, have not the same effect when heard elsewhere — " That strain again ! it had a dying fall. Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathe* upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." This speaks the same feeling in regard...

...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, 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. 0 spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou! That notwithstanding...

...into Elysium? I know not how it was, but it came over the sense with a power not to be resisted, " like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." I mention these things to shew, as I think, that pleasures are not " like poppies spread , You seize...

...resemblance to the wooing, which, from the lips of Lionel Gressingholme, had " Come o'er her heart like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour;" that two or three suitors, even military heroes, had been for some time assiduously paying their addresses...