 | Book - 1854 - 496 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 water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 1088 pàgines
...true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandishM at the eyes of ignorance. N(> > = water yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take EHza, and our... | |
 | William Howitt - 1856 - 596 pàgines
...before his time, is deeply interesting. That he was estimated highly we know from Jonson himself: " 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 did so take Eliza and our James." When... | |
 | 1856 - 586 pàgines
...its associations with Shakspere. His conteraporarie 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 flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our Jame« !" So... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 pàgines
...true-filed lines : In each of which, he seems to shake a Lance, As brandish't at the eyes of Ignorance. Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those nights upon the bankes of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James ! But stay, I see thee in the... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pàgines
...true-filed lines : In each of which, he seems to shake a Lance, As brandish't at the eyes of Ignorance. To see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames, Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were That so did take Eliza, and our James I But stay, I see thee... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 668 pàgines
...Ben Jonson that she justly appreciated the dramatist who was the brightest ornament of her reign ; " 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 Thai so did take Eliza and our James !"-'''... | |
 | William Howitt - 1857 - 736 pàgines
...his time, is deeply interesting. That he was estimated highly we know from Jonson himself : — '* 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." When... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1857 - 210 pàgines
...only a few brief quotations. It was Ben Jonson who styled our poet the " Sweet Swan of Avon" — " 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 1 " The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 354 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 flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take .Eliza and our .Tames. The... | |
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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! 
