...&c.] So, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona : " And now excess of it will make me surfeit" STEEVENS. 1 That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it...sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, STEALING, and giving odour.] Milton, in his Paradise Lost, b. iv. has very successfully introduced...

...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...

...with voices which he almost believes he heard before. The cadence of the other, which " comes o'er the ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and gi\ing odour"- — or, perhaps, is more like that magic breath of aerial IUUSK which poets...

...&c.] So, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona : " And now excess of it will make me surfeit." STEEVENS. 1 That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er ray ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, STEALING, and giving odour.] Milton,...

...bed. SHAKSPEABE compares an exquisitely sweet strain of music, to the delicious scent of this flower. O ! it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. There are several kinds of violets , but the fragrant (both blue and white)...

...Twelfth Night, 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, 9leali«g and giving odour. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the...

...that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and eo die. 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. — Enough ; no more ; 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before. 0 spirit...

...of love, play oik; 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...

...has some exquisite lines upon this flower, where the duke, listening to plaintive music, desires " That strain again ; it had a dying fall : O, it came...sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour." We are told, in the notes to Mr. Steevens' Edition of Shakspeare, that...

...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 sweet south,i That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour.* Enough ; no more ; 'Tis...