 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1842 - 294 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pàgines
...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."... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 612 pàgines
...in our waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eli/a, and our James! But stay; I see thee in the hemisphere...and made a constellation there : Shine forth, thou star of poets ; and with rage, Or influence, chide, or cheer, the drooping stage ; Which, since thy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pàgines
...true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pàgines
...true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lanee, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignoranee. Swect Swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters yct appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James!... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 390 pàgines
...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 in our water * yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1846 - 582 pàgines
...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 thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James."*... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1846 - 588 pàgines
...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 thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks or 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! 
