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 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 410 pages
...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 !' Elizabeth could hardly, as Mr Dyce remarks, ' have been insensible to the most enchanting compliment... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1862 - 310 pages
...ignorance. 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 ! But stay ; I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there : — Shine forth,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 pages
...dramatist. ' Sweet Swan of Avon, what a eight it were, To see thee in our waters yet appear ; And make these flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James.' ' Eliza and our James ' would not, however, so continuously have patronized Ben Jonson had he confined... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 360 pages
...exclaims— 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 Jama. These princes, then, were taken, were fascinated, with some of Shakspeare's dramas. In Elizabeth... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - 1864 - 394 pages
...ignorance. 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! Bnt stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a constellation there! Shine forth, then... | |
 | Robert E. Hunter - 1864 - 296 pages
...ignorance. 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 ! But stay ; I see thee in the hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a constellation there : — Shine forth,... | |
 | 1864 - 580 pages
...Art of Poesie, 1584 ; and if my guess were correct, it would add interest to Jonson's praise of — " Those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our J a M e S." SAMUEL NEIL. Moffatt, NB PASSAGE IN "OYMBELINE." " But alack You snatch some hence for... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1864 - 468 pages
...elegy on " the Swan of Avon:" — "What a sight it wers To see thee on our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and OUK JAJUB! " • Hooker was the favorite vernacular author of James; and his earliest inquiry, on his... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1865 - 450 pages
...1623 : — " Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James." On the death of Queen Elizabeth, Chettle, in his England's Mourning Garment, thus reproached Shakespeare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 436 pages
...Sweet swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee on our waters yet appear, And make those nights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James." Whatever his powers as an actor were, one thing is clear, that no man ever understood better the correct... | |
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