 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...true filed lines : In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished at the eves of ignorance. blows I bear. I should kick, being kick'd ; and, being at th water yet appear, And make those slights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our... | |
 | David Paul Brown - 1838 - 86 pages
...of Avon." Jonson, as is said, referring to these complimentary passages, introduces these lines : " Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And mark those flights upon the banks of Thames, That did so take Eliza and our James." The first of these... | |
 | 546 pages
...of the first to bring forward the plays of Shakespeare. He seems to have felt with Ben Jonson — " Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear." The sight has been realized ; and the " Swan of Avon," somewhat ruffled by the neglect... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1848 - 550 pages
...of the first to bring forward the plays of Shakespeare. He seems, to have felt with Ben Jonson — " Sweet Swan of Avon '. what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear." The sight has been realized ; and the " Swan of Avon," somewhat ruffled by the neglect... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pages
...; for Ben Jonson, in his celebrated eulogy, thus apostrophises his departed friend : — Sweet swun of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our...yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks ofThames, The latter monarch was present at the representation of many of his pieces, and is stated... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1842 - 294 pages
...show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe ; He was not of an age, but for all time. • - * * * * * Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear — ****** But stay ! I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there : Shine... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...its associations with Shakspere. His contemporaries connected his fame with his native river : — ** Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters yet appear. And make those tlights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and oui James !" So wrote Jonson in his manly... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pages
...ontemporary notoriety; for Jonson, in his celebrated eulogy, thus apostrophises his departed friend : — " Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters yet appear : Anil make those flights upon the hanks of Thames, That to did tal» Eliza, and our Jamet." That Elizabeth... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 pages
...Jonson, jn his celebrated eulogy, thus apostrophises his departed friend : — " Sweet swan of Avon, whnt a sight it were, To see thee in our waters yet appear : Ami make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James" That Elizabeth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 pages
...notoriety ; for Ben Jonson, in his celebrated eulogy, thus apostrophises his departed friend : — Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters yet appear ; And make those nights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James. The latter monarch was present... | |
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Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James! 
