...he a Soul, {As much as Man can thofe mean Arts controul: / If Mufick be the Food of Love, play on : That Strain again : It had a dying Fall : Oh ! It came o'er my Ear like a fweet Sound, That breaths upon a Bank of Violets, Stealing and giving Odour. Shak. Twelfth Niskt...

...Twelfth-Night, particularly, "begins wi$ a fine Reflexion that admirably marks its footK'• n mg Properties. That Strain again; — It had a dying Fall. Oh, it came o'er my Ear like tkejweet fju That breathes upon a Bank of Violets, r .. j • • f\ i • «<>•••• *" Stealing...

...begins with a fine reflection that admirably marks its foothing properties, t\ tC- i -; That ftrain again ; — It had a dying fall. Oh, it came o'er my ear like the fweet South, a 3 That n^'JcUj^i rn v"i • rt J1/1 « --"I j ,pteahng and giving odour i ' This fimilitiide...

...whore, And the next opportunity compleats My black difhonour. SOUTHERN. MR. LINLEY. Play on That ftrain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh! it came o'er my ear like -a fweet found, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odours. SHAKESP. Miss LINLEY....

...LXXXVII. A NNOTJT1ONS UPON TWELFTH NIGHT. ACT I. Unt 4. 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. ] Among the beauties of this eharming similitude, its exaft propriety is not the least. For, as a south...

...was ifefcribing, in thefe charming lines, the very effect which they are made to produce. That drain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear like the Iweet Couth, That That breathes upon a bank of violets, Steali ng, and giving odour- . Twelfth Night....

...was defctibing, in thefe charming lines, the very efFeft which they are made to produce. That ftrain again ; it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear, like the fweet fouth, That That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Twelfth Night. But...

...from association.* Shakspeare says of soft melody : " 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." And Milton, in one of his early poems, says : — * Alison " On Taste," pp. 152, 174. " And ever against...

...fine passage is undoubtedly taken from asfine a one in Shakspeare's Twelfth Night, at the beginning: - 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, included in...

...of voice : thus the Duke, in Shakspeare's Twelfth Night, relieving his melancholy with music, says : That strain again! it had a dying fall! Oh, it came...upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. While the contemptuous reproach and impatience of Lady Macbeth uses the exclamation in a harsh and...