...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....

...to the popular ballads of particular countries, such as Switzerland and Scotland. They come o'er the ear, like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour They show in the greatest degree the power of the association of ideas. They...

...food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again; — it had a dying fall: O, it...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...

...justly-beloved child, from the kindest and tenderest of parents. c\3 CHAP. CHAP. II " Oh ! it came o'er her ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets ; - Stealing and giving odour." JL HE morning sun had shot his lucid beams above the hills, and breaking...

...more than eace betrayed him into tears and myself into sadness, by sounds which came **• " o'er his ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets." Two or three songs of Horace's are now locked up; and the baronet is contented with being roused to...

...of love, play on, Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it...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...

...Give me excess of it; 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." Twelfth Night, act 1. tc. 1. Lord Bacon, in the following passage, makes...

...of love, play on, *• Give me excess of it ; 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 swett south. That breathes upon a bulk of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. — Enough ; no more...

...surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. [Music. 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. [Music. Enough — no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. O...

...he -"seated'himself, " I 'thought, not'Jong since, ! *hat 4 heard the-sound *t)f * mttsic, -stealing o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets. << Who was the fair ihaft&fti&t ? -find have her syfefl strains so speedily ceased ?" Geraldine smiled,...