 | 546 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1840 - 434 pàgines
...spot, in retirement and in the society of a beloved daughter, in the hist years * Ben Jonson : — And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James ! of his too short life. Immediately after his death a monument was erected over his grave, which may... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pàgines
...; 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 436 pàgines
...posilively told by Ben Jonson in his Elegy on " The Swan of Avon "— " What a sight it were, To see thee on our waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon...banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and OUR JAMES * !" Hooker was the favourite vernacular author of James; and his earliest inquiry, on his arrival... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 476 pàgines
...positively told by Ben Jonson in his elegy on " The Swan of Avon" — " What a sight it were, To see thee on our waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon...banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and OUR JAMES !"* Hooker was the favorite vernacular author of James ; and his earliest inquiry, on his arrival in... | |
 | Spencer Hall - 1841 - 48 pàgines
...was not until the reign of George the Second that the public took a strong interest in him, who made Those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James! And if we examine the dramatic literature of each period we may be convinced of the melancholy truth... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 478 pàgines
...Elizabeth and James were conceived. The dramatic entertainments — Shakspere's especially — • " those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James," — were open to all the world; and the great showed their good sense in cherishing those wonderful... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1842 - 360 pàgines
...told by Ben Jonson in his Elegy on "The Swan of Avon." — - " What a sight it were, To see thee on our waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon...banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and OUR JAMES ! " * Hooker was the favourite vernacular author of James ; and his earliest inquiry, on his arrival... | |
 | 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 : Shine... | |
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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... 
