...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, dear aunt. The south wind, which...

...breath of wind upon the Violet ! That song 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. The Violets from which the illustrative drawing was made, were the late flowering variety, the leaves...

...not. " Shakspeare alone could describe the effect of his own poetry : " O, It cane o'er my ear like husbandry : But come thy ways, we'll go along? together ; And ere we have thy youth "What we so much admire here is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been so generally...

...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 variety, the leaves...

...of melody,— Of music,— " 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;"— a horse-laugh— " The large Achilles, on his press'd bed lolling, From his deep chest laughs out a...

...gales of Araby the blest, your Constitution, with WASHINGTON at its head, " Came o'er our ears like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." And what, under that Constitution, still the supreme law of the land, is the condition of your country...

...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 one of the master spirits of that enchanting art, who left an imperishable...

...kind to be seen. The " concord of sweet sounds," too, is now often heard, " Coming o'er the ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." It was formerly the custom, when any great personage received a visit, to have presented to him a pipe...

...appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like m — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh...

...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. 4 — i. 1. 300 Love is like a child, That longs for every thing that he can come by. 2— iii. 1....