..."Bring music! stir the brooding air with an etherial breath." "That strain again! O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets stealing and giving odour." Reader, were you at the concert on Friday? — If not, you have certainly lost a fine and rich repast...

...personification of such musical hearing. He says: If music be the food of love, play on; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! And later, in Act II, he exclaims: Give me some music . . . Methought it did relieve my passion much...

...Course of Nature (1736). "Hamlet, \\.ii. 192. 20 Twelfth Night, I. i. 5-7: 'O, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south / That breathes upon a bank of violets, / Stealing, and giving odour.' 21 The Lisbon earthquake of November 1755 devastated the city. 22 cf. James Boswell, The Journal of...

...to the Colosseum. The moon was in her fullest splendor — the air as soft and balmy as Shakspeare's "Like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." Two friends of the Prince who followed us, made up the only party at this scene of solitary grandeur;...

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

...fancy, as he had for a moment supposed; and he involuntarily exclaimed— "O, it came o'er mine ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets— Stealing and giving odour." 1 His dog, too, gave evident signs of hearing something unusual, ran from his master to the brink of...