 | Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 390 pages
...inscripsit flens et amans Genitor. Jonson was the first who called Shakespeare the " sweet swan of Avon;" . Sweet swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee...banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James ! The lines occur in the poem entitled " To the memory of my beloved the Author Mr. William Shakespeare,... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 428 pages
...Geoitor. Jonson was the first who called Shakespeare the " sweet swan of Avon ;" Sweet swan of Avon 1 what a sight it were To see thee in our water * yet...make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so dirl take Eliza and our James ! The lines occur in the poem entitled " To the memory of my beloved... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1846 - 582 pages
...the poet, and took great pleasure in his compositions, is proved by Ben Jonson'swell-kuown lines : " Sweet swan of Avon ! what a sight it were, To see...of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James."* * Besides, it is so stated, expressly, in the already-mentioned writing of Southampton's. FalstafFs... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1846 - 588 pages
...the poet, and took great pleasure iu his compositions, is proved by Ben Jouson's well-knownlines: " Sweet swan of Avon ! what a sight it were, To see...yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks or Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James."* * Besides, it is so stated, expressly, in the already-mentioned... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...true filed lines : In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. 8 9 Thamee That so did take Eliza and our James 1 But stay, I sec thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. 'd, my lords, Knights of the garter were of noble birth, Val waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our... | |
 | Villemain (M., Abel-François) - Literature - 1847 - 408 pages
...Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight il were ïo see thee in our waters yet appear; And make those flighls upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James. » Quoique attaqué souvent par les allusions de Ben Johnson et de Fletcher, il vivait en amitié avec... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Dramatists, English - 1848 - 378 pages
...20. Tlus eurious extraet is taken from a treatise on hunting, dedieated to the Earl of Northampton. Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, , And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...filed lines : In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish 'd at the eyes of ignorance. ! They cannot thrive Who kill'd thee. Thou ne'er didst,...could Thy death to them do any good. I'm sure I never Kliza and our James ! But stay, I sec thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...of Shakspere. As for that of the Court, the testimony, imperfect as it is, is entirely conclusive. " Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear. And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James,"... | |
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Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James! 
