 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1851 - 870 pàgines
...of the first to bring forward the plays of Shakspeare. 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 492 pàgines
...Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To sse thse in our waters yct appear, And make those ilights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James !" So wrote Jonson in his manly lines, " To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author. Mr. William Shakspere,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pàgines
...of 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... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 pàgines
...as well as he pleased Elizabeth ; that he ia popular with the Stuart as well as the Tndor :— •' 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 - 1853 - 928 pàgines
...brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our water salind) for wife. Ros. I might ask you for your commission ; but, — I do take thee, Orlando, for m But stay ; I see thee in the hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a constellation there : Shine forth, thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pàgines
...of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. 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. But stay ; I see thee in the hemisphere Advane'd, and made a constellation there : Shine forth, thou... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pàgines
...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 ! But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there 1 Shine forth, thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 pàgines
...eyes of ignorance. To see thee in our water yet appear ; Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were, most desolate isle, else falls Upon your heads) is nothing, but heart's sorrow, And a Advanc'd, and made a constellation there : But stay ; I see thee in the hemisphere Shine forth, thou... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1853 - 352 pàgines
...dropped tears over his new-made grave at Stratford, on the river Avon, in his mournfulness he sung — " 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 forth, thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 916 pàgines
...true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. n't : and now farewell, Till half an hour hence. Per 0 water yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our... | |
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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... 
